Fact1: Ollie Trinke is powerful media publicist in New York City, Fact2: wife powerful media publicist in dies during childbirth with aneurysm New York City, Fact3: Affleck ignores new daughter while father, Fact4: Ollie is forced to live up to responsibility as single parent, Fact5: prospect of moving back to New York City creates tension among Ollie Gertie Bart and Maya
Output: Ollie Trinke Ben Affleck is a powerful media publicist in New York City whose wife, Gertie Jennifer Lopez, sadly dies during childbirth with an aneurysm. To avoid his grief, he buries himself in his work and ignores his new daughter, Gertie, while his father, Bart George Carlinwho also lost his own wife many years prior, takes a month off from work to take care of her, but returns a while later so that his son Ollie is forced to live up to his responsibility as a single parent. Under the stress of a botched diaper change and a baby who will not stop crying, he trashes his client, Will Smith, for his soontobe released film, Independence Day, in front of assembled reporters. Unfortunately, this costs him his job, so he moves back in with Bart in New Jersey. He eventually apologizes for ignoring Gertie, and attributes his public outburst to his grief. Blacklisted by all of New York Citys public relations firms, Ollie has to work as a civil servant in the borough where he now lives with his father. Seven years later, Gertie Raquel Castro, now in elementary school, often coaxes him to rent films to watch. At the video store, they meet Maya Liv Tyler, a graduate student and one of the clerks, whose uninhibited probing into Ollies love life almost leads to them having casual sex. She soon becomes a part of their lives. As part of his job in the borough, Ollie speaks to a group of outraged citizens to win over their approval for a major public works project that will temporarily close a street in the neighborhood. His successful and enjoyable interaction with them leads him to realize how much he misses the public relations work. He contacts Arthur Jason Biggs, his onetime protege, who sets up a promising interview. The prospect of moving back to New York City creates tension among Ollie, Gertie, Bart, and Maya, especially when he says that his interview is on the same day as Gerties school talent show. She yells at him, saying she hates him and that she wishes he had died instead of her mother. He claims he hates her right back, and says she and her mother Gertie took his life away and he just wants it back. He immediately regrets it and tries to apologize, but the damage is done and she angerly pushes him away and runs to her room, crying. A few days later they finally patch things up, and she accepts the fact that they will be moving to New York City. While waiting to be interviewed, he has a chance encounter with Will Smith playing himself, whom he trashed at his public outburst years before. Smith has no idea who Ollie is, but they have a conversation about work and children that persuades Ollie to skip the interview and leave. Ollie rushes to make it to Gerties Sweeney Todd performance at the last moment. The film ends with him, Gertie, Bart, Maya, and the rest celebrating at the bar. He and Maya hint at possible feelings for each other before being interrupted by Gertie. He holds her in his arms and says that they are staying in New Jersey because he decided to not take the job. She asks why he did so if he loved it so much. He then says that he thought he did, but he loves his new life more because being a father to her was the only thing that he was ever really good at.