The Good Girl


Our heroine in this dark comedy is a 30-year-old woman, trapped in a dead-end job and equally dead-end marriage. One day, a young man joins the staff at the store where she works, and soon, they are having lunchtime trysts. She sees these as a release from the ''prison'' of her life. However, as she gets to know the youngster better, she realises that he is not entirely mentally healthy, and that she is now in a different sort of prison...


93 minutes.
No persons under 16 .
Comedy

Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.

Maybe I should have been nice rather than good...
Maybe I should have been nice rather than good...

Credits

Cast
Jennifer Aniston, Mike White, Jake Gyllenhaal, Deborah Rush, John Carroll Lynch, John C. Reilly
Director
Miguel Arteta
ScreenplayMike White
MusicStephen Thomas Cavit, Andrew Gross, Tony Maxwell, James O'Brien, Mark Orton, Joey Waronker
CinematographyEnrique Chediak
Sound formatsDolby Digital
Made in2002
Produced byFlan de Coco Films, Hungry Eye Lowland Pictures B.V., In-Motion AG Movie & TV Productions, Myriad Pictures Inc., World Media Fonds V

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Ratings

Scale (Max)20

What the Critics say

The Cape Times
Kevin Thomas
15
The Star
Tanya Farber
16
Die Burger
Francois Smith
10
Sunday Times
Barry Ronge
15
Total Movie
Harry Chasen
15
eye Weekly
Adam Nayman
13
Box Office
Annlee Ellingson
10
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
15

What the People say

Internet
1260 Netizens
15

Average .. 69%

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