The Good Girl | Jennifer Aniston, Deborah Rush

The Good Girl | Jennifer Aniston, Deborah Rush | Actually pretty good

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The Good Girl

	The Good Girl Jennifer Aniston, Deborah Rush 20th Century Fox, 2003 average customer review:based on 220 reviews view larger image
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Justine Last longs for a more fulfilling life than the one she leads with her boring husband and a dead end job, and when she meets a young co-worker who believes he is Holden Caulfield, she begins an affair with him.
Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: R
Release Date: 6-FEB-2007
Media Type: DVD

A guilty pleasure.

The Good Girl (Miguel Arteta, 2002)

You know those movies where you laugh, but every time you do you feel guilty for doing so? Yeah, that's The Good Girl. Arteta (Chuck and Buck) starts this off as if it's going to be a light, breezy (if mean-spirited) comedy, but things just keep getting more and more tragic. The brilliance of the film is that the more tragic they get, the funnier the script becomes. There are quite a few ways in which this film puts me in mind of Very Bad Things, and I mean that in the best of ways.

The story: Justine Last (Jennifer Aniston) is stuck. She's in a dead-end job, her husband (John C. Reilly) is a house painter with a serious dope habit and a bonehead for a best friend (Tim Blake Nelson), her own best friend (Deborah Rush) is about as deep as a pothole. Is this all there is to life? Enter Holden (Jake Gyllenhaal), a new cashier at her place of business, who feels the trials and tribulations of late adolescence just as Justine feels the trials and tribulations of adulthood, and the two of them strike up a friendship. Complications, as they say, ensue. And as it is in the movies, once complications ensue, everything that can go wrong does at the earliest possible opportunity.

This could have played out as a Lifetime Original Movie melodrama, but Arteta keeps his eyes on the prize-- making the viewer laugh, and making the viewer feel guilty about laughing. Aniston and Gyllenhaal both play their roles perfectly straight while everyone else around them plays for laughs, which only adds to the uncomfortable hilarity.

The more I think about it, the more impressed I am with this movie. Good stuff. ****

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Actually pretty good

I rented this movie for my wife because it had the girl from 'Friends', I expected it to be a lame chick flick that I'd fall asleep wathcing. To my surprise it turned out to be a really good movie. Men if you're in a similar situation where you pick out a movie for yourself and one for your girlfried / wife, give this one a chance.

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