Mr. Jealousy

Lester Grimm is an aspiring writer whose first date, at fifteen, ended with the girl kissing someone else at a party. Ever since, he has approached relationships with suspicion, and his new girlfriend, Ramona Ray, becomes the focus of that habit once he learns her former boyfriend is Dashiell Frank, a successful novelist. Convinced something may still be going on between them, Lester joins the same group therapy sessions Dashiell attends, adopting a false name to get close to him and find out about Ramona's past.

Noah Baumbach wrote and directed the film, his second feature after Kicking and Screaming and the one preceding The Squid and the Whale. Eric Stoltz plays Lester, with Annabella Sciorra as Ramona, Chris Eigeman as Dashiell, Carlos Jacott, Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Brian Kerwin among the credited cast of 31. Joel Kastelberg produced through Joel Castleberg Productions, and the film runs 105 minutes.

Released in June 1998, Mr. Jealousy drew modest audience scores: on IMDb it holds 6.3 out of 10 from around 2,800 votes, while on TMDB it sits at 5.9 from a much smaller group of 48 ratings. A critics' rating of 6.5 from 14 reviews places it a little above the IMDb audience figure and clearly ahead of the TMDB one, though the small samples on both the critic and TMDB sides make those gaps hard to read as a firm verdict.