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With no hope of ever working in public relations again, he’s forced to move back to New Jersey with his dad, where he takes a job as a street sweeper. One evening seven years later, he’s waiting on his daughter, Gertie (Rachel Castro) to rent a video while trying to check out a porno video undetected. Instead, he attracts the attention of Maya, the video store clerk (Liv Tyler), who manipulates Ollie into going out to lunch the next day. When she learns that he hasn’t had sex since his wife died seven years ago, she offers to give him a "mercy jump." Don’t be mislead by his devotion, however, because Ollie has been renting porno videos three to four times a week and pleasuring himself. In other words, he’s been sublimating his legitimate desire for love and intimacy while becoming a sex addict. This fits perfectly into Maya’s plans, because she’s writing a graduate thesis about porn and the family man.

Maya pushes Ollie to take her home for that mercy jump. She succeeds with such logic as, "Casual sex is the same thing as masturbation, only someone else is doing the touching, and you’re saving the $2 rental fee." Now isn’t this the kind of girl you want to take home to dad, marry and raise your kid?

Actually, Ollie’s dad (George Carlin) likes her. Of course, he swears in almost every sentence he utters, using countless profanities (including one f--- word) and obscenities throughout the film. Ollie joins in, too. In fact, "JC!" seems to be their favorite exclamation. Okay, so it’s working class Jersey, but it really grated on my ears.