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Summary: A Good Girl in a Mediocre Movie
Review: Jennifer Aniston, rapidly becoming one of America's darlings of the cinema, makes a great performance in a movie that simply doesn't add up to much.She plays Justine, a girl who's life has become an unbearable trap, from a dead-end job at Retail Rodeo, and a marriage that is dysfunctional at best. Offering a ticket out of this despair is Holden, a young 22 year old confused stallion recently employed at the Retail Rodeo. Through an ill-thought out affair, Justine begins to experience a possible glimpse of the "other side". However, much of what happens in this movie is ill-thought out. Jennifer's dead-end marriage to wonderful character actor John C. Reilly is unexplained; there is no obvioius attraction between the two and much of the movie was spent wondering why they were together. While it helps to propel the reason for the affair, it still doesn't help resolve issues at the end of the movie. The plot is ill-thought out, meandering through event after event, as we watch Justine react to one thing and another. A boring life doesn't not a good movie make. While the "Good Girl" had some good intentions, the end result isn't very.
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Summary: the good girl
Review: the good girl is a good movie to watch if you have absolutely nothing else to do.That would also include root canal work.it should have been titled the adultress bored wife.aniston may be in a good movie someday but this isnt it.
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Summary: An interesting, tragic story
Review: The Story: Justine, the protagonist of this film is fed-up with her life. She shows this with her drooping shoulders, drony voice, and the way she leans against her counter at the Retail Rodeo, head in hand. Her eyes sweep over the place constantly and disgustedly, she sighs to herself. In one of those sweeps she takes in the mysterious new employee, Holden, whom no one knows much about as he 'keeps himself to himself'. He always has his head in a book which, when prompted by curiosity to introduce herself, Justine discovers is "The Catcher in the Rye". She also discovers that Holden is named for the hero of the book (and no his name's not Catcher.) Justine is drawn to Holden. His quiet demeanor hides an inner struggle with his lot in life. Although younger, Holden "gets" her. She, entranced by his big soulful eyes and her desperation to make something beautiful to contrast her drab life, begins a romantic affair with this sensitive young man. There's only one problem, Justine is married. Phil, her husband, a housepainter who spends most of his time smoking pot on the couch with his ever-present friend Bubba, is completely oblivious to his cuckold status. In fact, he seems to think that everything is wonderful and that they are trying for a baby. He believes that Justine is infertile, but is alarmed to discover that smoking 'doobies' kills sperm. He may be the infertile one. Meanwhile, Justine's relationship with Holden continues to blossom. They eat lunch together everyday and make mooney eyes at one another from their respective corners of the Retail Rodeo. They meet at an out of the way motel (under the disapproving eye of the desk clerk). It is after one of these trysts that Justine discovers the truck of Bubba, Phil's ubiquitous friend, parked out front. That's when everything starts to unravel for her--tragically. My Thoughts: Though laced with moments of humor, this movie is sad. Jennifer Anniston, in the main role of Justine, is very good. She is extremely believable as a world-weary and dissatisfied woman who needs a change so desperately that she enters into a serious relationship with a disturbed, immature young man (convincingly played by Jake Gyllenhaal.) I could relate to her frustration with the empty sameness of day-to-day living. Life in the small Texas town where she lives is predictable and stifling. I liked the desperation of Justine and Holden's relationship. I believed that two people in their situation would try to fan the flames of passion in order to infuse their lives with some sort of meaning. I also liked the depressed looking employees of Retail Rodeo especially the announcement/free makeover girl who insults customers subliminally. "The Good Girl" is about a woman who tries to find meaning in her life through the idea of love, but finds tragedy instead. It's a complex, thought-provoking film certainly worth the investment of watching.
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Summary: It is AWFUL!
Review: I watched this movie with 3 other adults, and none of us liked it. We wanted to turn it off after the first 15 minutes, but decided to give it a fair chance. It wasn't worth it! All of us like different kinds of movies, but we could barely keep our eyes open. It wasn't funny, it didn't pull at your heartstrings, but it does make your mind go numb. Plot? What is that? Maybe I'll send this movie to my worst enemy so THEY can be tortured. I usually like Jennifer Aniston, but this script was terrible.
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Summary: What is the song?
Review: ...P>A movie with a moral. Don't be a thief and don't be disturbed. Oh and for the record this is not an "indie" film, it's a low budget film that was released by 20th Century Fox. Big difference.
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Summary: Such a change from "Friends."
Review: I've always been a fan of "Friends" and Jennifer Aniston is good on the show as Rachel, but I must say that her performance in this movie is so much better than she could ever be as Rachel. Where most people would typecast Aniston as some sort of flaky ditz as she is at times on Friends, Aniston has a chance to shine in the brooding drama that incited emotions that I've never felt before in me. Giving an awesome performance as Texas girl Justine, Jennifer Aniston really makes you believe that her life has been tough. Her husband and his friend are potheads who seem to do nothing for her life, and you sense that the marriage was once something semi-happy, but has deteriorated into nothing but a rut. John C. Reilly takes a character that could easily be the "stereotypical stupid pothead husband" and made him into a character who, though he has his severe flaws, really cares about Justine. The character of Holden too was very believeable, in my opinion. He's younger than Justine and a welcome change in her life, and I enjoyed how she tried to shoddily cover up their friendship/affair with such unbelievable lies. The ending saddened me for days. The fact that neither of these interesting characters could find happiness in their lives made me feel so sad for them as if they were my family members, and wondering whose baby it was also left me pondering. This is a great movie and a welcome change from Jennifer Aniston's flaky work. She and the rest of the cast play their roles so well, you wish this movie, even with all the thought-provocation and sadness this movie brings with it.
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Summary: amazing
Review: I had to watch twice to write this. Here is a women, who chose to marry instead of college, works at a decrepit drugstore in the middle of the bible belt. She wakes up realizing she hates everything about her life and even her attempt at maternity is going to hell. She comes home to see her husband and his coworker who appears to have the IQ of a dead flea, stoned in her living room getting paint on her new couch.
After meeting holden and pursuing her passion she realizes that her decision are controlled by the very men she is trying to escape from. Her spiritual self is questioned by a male co worker, keeping her lover a secret is controlled by her husbands friend who says 'sleep with me or I tell' and even her intellectual self is questioned by Holden. Even her chances of being pregnant are determined by her husbands fertility or lack of it. I see this pathos of a woman who is entirely trapped by decisions men are making for her and any attempt to escape is going to create consequences she is unable to face. Until she can face them she is going to remain trapped.
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Summary: The Good Girl-What a flop!
Review: I heard this movie described as "one of the best movies of the year!" Well, it was by far the worst movie I have EVER seen. Instead of watching this movie, clean the bathroom, fold laundry, dust, anything-just spare yourself from the agony of watching a plotless movie acted out by two actors who should have known better.
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Summary: Good Girl? Not so much.
Review: After hearing the raves of Jennifer Aniston's performance in this movie, I was really looking forward to seeing it. She does a great job portraying Justine, a 30-something retail clerk who's unhappy with her life. The problem is, Justine as a character is so completely selfish and unsympathetic that by the time the climax of the movie rolled around, and it was time for Justine to choose between going back to her old life or running away with her young lover, I realized I didn't much care which she chose. I can understand and even somewhat relate to Justine; she sees no way out of her humdrum, unhappy life. But that, in my opinion, did not excuse her subsequent behavior: she dumps her ailing coworker, Gwen, at the hospital, says she's going to park the car, then drives off for her first rendezvous with Holden. She later uses the dying woman as her alibi for further romantic trysts. When Holden catches her sleeping with Bubba (to prevent him from telling her husband Phil about her affair with Holden) and, upset, call her a whore, she decides then that he's a child, and the only way for her to move forward "on the road to redemption" is to dump him...which she proceeds to try and do by buying him a tin of the blackberries she believed fatally poisoned Gwen. Justine then gets pregnant (by whom, we're never 100% sure) and convinces Phil it's his baby, despite the doctors just having told him he has a low sperm count. Holden, who robbed the store safe for money to run away with Justine, is turned into the police by her (to save her name from being associated with the robbery), with tragic results. I suppose you could take the view that the title is meant to indicate irony: Justine is anything but a "good girl." However, I think there should have been *something* redeeming about the character, and I just didn't see it there. She isn't even the kind of character you "love to hate." She's not much of anything.
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Summary: Groan....
Review: Despite high expectations, I started groaning at this DVD almost from the first scene. One bogus, Hollywood-fake condescending take on the "fly-over" zone of America after another, there's not an honest moment or believeable character in this entire sneering exercise. The best performances in the world can't overcome fundamentally dishonest material. Steer clear.
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