The Good Girl

The Good Girl

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The Good Girl

Jennifer Aniston, Jake Gyllenhaal, Zooey Deschanel, John C. Reilly, Deborah Rush

A discount store clerk strikes up an affair with a stock boy who considers himself the incarnation of Holden Caulfield.

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  • May 15, 2009
    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)ggeration (unusual in my reviews, just a heads up), that every other major character was expertly played and very engaging. Zooey Deschanel = fabulously dippy and funny as usual. Jake Gyllenhaal = intriguing, then eccentric, then crazy; consistently HOT. John C. Reilly = heartwrenchingly clueless and well-meaning. Mike White = skeezy bastard.

    Highly recommended, but not for the faint of heart.
  • January 8, 2009
    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.
  • November 28, 2008
    "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)im Blake Nelson). Longing for something more in her life, Justine becomes involved with a younger co-worker named Tom (Jake Gyllenhall), but because of his fascination with The Catcher in the Rye, he likes to be called Holden. Her new sense of freedom and release are threatened when a co-worker dies, and when Bubba learns of her infidelity.

    Review
    I don't think I've ever been so amused and depressed by the same movie before. So much was made of Aniston's performance, and she is good, but she is just one player in a well cast film. In fact, she may have the easiest role in the film, as she is required to play most scenes devoid of expression or emotion. It is the situations that surround her that make the movie so funny, and much credit must be given to the supporting cast for making these situations seem so believable. But it is Aniston's sad character, sick of her surroundings and life, yet unwilling to change it, that makes for a depressing story. Even though there are plenty of laughs while watching the film, it will not leave you with a warm and fuzzy feeling when it's done.
  • September 28, 2008
    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)ther 'woman cheats on husband' film, but ends up being a good train wreck.
  • August 6, 2008
    Eh...
  • January 1, 2010
    It was good, Jennifer Aniston is one of my favorite actresses.
  • December 18, 2009
    really interesting and dark
  • December 10, 2009
    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); the talented faces collected here just have nothing to do, thanks to a nearly unconscious script.
  • December 9, 2009
    Jennifer Aniston have many depressing roles in movies. This was one of them.
  • October 23, 2009
    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.

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