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Jennifer Aniston, Jake Gyllenhaal, Zooey Deschanel, John C. Reilly, Deborah Rush, Mike White
A discount store clerk strikes up an affair with a stock boy who considers himself the incarnation of Holden Caulfield.
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This movie was truly amazing. Jennifer Aniston was phenomenal. During the film, her performance actually erased all memory of the annoyingly peppy Rachel Green, replacing her with a lethargically desperate, unhappily married woman in a small town.
I can also say, without exa...( read more)
I know that this one received critical acclaim, and the performances from Gyllenhaal and John Reilly were quite good, but this just didn't work for me.
"It's her last best chance... is she going to take it?"
Jennifer Aniston stars as Justine, a woman who is feeling constrained by her life. Her husband, Phil (John C. Reilly), is a house painter who spends the majority of his time smoking marijuana with his friend Bubba (T...( read more)
I normally hate jake gyllenhaal and jennifer aniston, but their hopeless and depressing characters were tolerable. Zooey Deschanel and John C. Reilly were the true charms of this movie, and I was wishing they were in it more the whole time. Still, not a bad film. Felt like ano...( read more)
Every scene in The Good Girl has the same dreary, frustrating melodramatic tone of a soap opera, but without even passionate tension. The usually charming Aniston can't generate a single flicker of heat during her countless love scenes with Gyllenhaal. It's not really their fault...( read more)
Jennifer Aniston have many depressing roles in movies. This was one of them.
I was expecting a cheesy chick flick and I could not have been more wrong.
This is a very interesting film that shows the complexity of life. Difficult to explain but I really enjoyed it, it's quite dark in certain ways but definitely worth a watch.
As "comedies" go this is as unfunny as a very unfunny thing (Seth Rogen remaking Shawshank). Aniston is unhappy with her lot in life so she has an affair with some screwed up kid. Tim Blake Nelson is really good, and Deschanel isn't bad, but otherwise I was left nonchalant to the...( read more)
Surprisingly good Aniston in a serious role.. i was fascinated...
