Amber Rose Sealey, Danny DeVito, Franco Bulaon
Gary, a once successful musician, struggles with his career and an inert relationship with his girlfriend Dora. As his work as a commercial jingle writer spirals into ever more degrading depths, his b...( read more
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DVD Release Date: April 1, 2008
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Flixster Reviews (684)
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July 12, 2009What if we could control our dreams, and turn them into our fantasy escape world? How would that effect our reality?
This film, written and directed by Gwyneth's brother Jake Paltrow, let's it's main character, Gary explore just that. But sooner or later, Gary starts to lose ho...( read more) -
October 6, 2008I have been watching a lot of good independent films right now and this one is probably one of the best indie films I've seen in a while. Well, next to Crash.
The good thing about the film is that I can relate to it. Sometimes, I dream about girls whom I do not know of and the n...( read more) -
July 10, 2008Nothing profound here, but I do like the idea that even with the ability to control dreams, someone would chose to be with their actual partner and not a fantasy.
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April 11, 2008Man I was so looking foward to this...especially since it had Simon Pegg...he did great and I love him no matter what he does...but man this was just bad. Paltrow sucked bad, she was so fake, the story was like...phew...what to say...her brother needs to try something other then ...( read more)
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September 28, 2007"Sometimes I wish I could just hit the sack and never wake up. If your favourite song never ended, or your best book never closed. If the emotions mustered from these things would just go on and on... Who wouldn't wanna stay asleep? The guy who discovers that, the perpetual dr...( read more)
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October 23, 2009I really enjoyed this movie. It was like a live action version of Waking Life. I you like lucid dreaming or just the idea of it you will enjoy these movies.
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September 10, 2009a little slow and boring movie. Its tells the story of Gary who is bored with his life and has dreams which is a gateway to his real life..
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Critic Reviews
October 2, 2007
Nick Schager, Slant Magazine
October 1, 2007
David Edelstein, New York Magazine
The Good Night takes familiar (embarrassingly familiar) male-angst material and makes it go loop-de-loop, so that the jokes hit you from behind and underneath while the bleakness smacks you in the face. full review
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