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What they want you to believe is this is the heroine’s last chance, last chance for what? I think it is more like Jennifer Aniston’s last chance to make a decent picture, and well the Good Girl is not so good, at least not on the big screen. Aniston (Rock Star) is Justine Last, a cosmetic clerk at the local drug store. She is thirty, married, and bored with life. Justine is married to a house painter, the pot smoking pig Phil Last (The Perfect Storm), and how a guy like that hooked up with a girl like Justine has to baffle the entire audience. Then there is his workmate and best bud, Bubba (Tim Blake Nelson of Minority Report), this guy is a toad or a retarded Barney Rubble. Justine meets this 22 year-old at work Holden Worther (Jake Gyllenhaal), only his name really isn’t Holden it is Tom, but since he lives in his own fictional world he thinks he is really Holden Caufield from The Catcher in the Rye. He thinks the world just doesn’t get him, then he sees Justine does. So he pursues her into an illicit affair. Only she discovers the only thing to get about this guy is he is not dealing with a full deck. She is left with a couple choices. She can continue trying to hide this from her husband or run off with the delusional Holden. When pressed with the question of what does she have to lose, what does she really have to lose? So trying to figure it out before she does on what choice she will make is really a coin toss. There really isn’t much to this movie, and why Mike White (Orange County) would write this drivel other than it was an opportunity to work himself into a movie role, he was Corny, a bible wielding security guard. Others appearing in this movie were Deborah Rush (You’ve got Mail), John Carroll Lynch (Gone in Sixty Seconds), and Zooey Deschanel (The New Guy). The Good Girl was directed by Miguel Arteta, but there wasn’t much direction taken with this film. Since there was very little depth to any of the characters it was not much of a stretch in the acting either. In fact it was like they were all on the verge of falling asleep. You know, I bet they were as bored as the audience. Did I mention there was frontal nudity, but I guess this guy has tremendous shrinkage after sex because it only looked like a patch of pubic hair and nothing more. I didn’t really want to see his bear bum either, so the nudity was just kinda gross. Well I give The Good Girl a three on the About-Movies.com scale. Bu bye.
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