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NUMBERS
Box Office: $13,737,564
VHS Rentals: $6,990,000
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CONSENSUS
As Justine, Aniston proves she can successfully act outside her longtime Friends role.
CAST & CREW
Jennifer Aniston, Jake Gyllenhaal, John C. Reilly
Directed by Miguel Arteta
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SYNOPSIS
THE GOOD GIRL, directed by Miguel Arteta and written by Mike White, stars Jennifer Aniston as Justine, a sullen 30-year-old woman stuck in a dead-end job at the Retail Rodeo department store. more...
MPAA RATING
R, sexuality, some language, and drug content
RUNTIME
1 hour, 34 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Aug 7, 2002
Video: Jan 7, 2003
RELEASE COMPANY
Fox Searchlight Pictures
GENRE
Comedies, Dramas, Black Comedy, Drama, Love Affairs
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Good Girl
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 "like a poor man’s You Can Count On Me"
-- Mark Adnum, MARKADNUM.COM
 "All the characters are clinically depressed and have abandoned their slim hopes and dreams."
-- Victoria Alexander, FILMSINREVIEW.COM
"[Aniston is] so good, she manages to overcome the occasional nuggets of preciousness and self-consciousness in the story."
-- Jeffrey M. Anderson, SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
"First good, then bothersome. Excellent acting and direction."
-- Ross Anthony, HOLLYWOOD REPORT CARD
"'Si bien no logra desarrollarse como un gran drama, tampoco es tan superficial como muchas cintas que pecan de pretenciosas y que resultan totalmente banales.'"
-- Jorge Avila Andrade, MOVIOLA
"A sad, superior human comedy played out on the back roads of life."
-- Joe Baltake, SACRAMENTO BEE
"The Good Girl is a film in which the talent is undeniable but the results are underwhelming."
-- Rob Blackwelder, SPLICEDWIRE
"It's soulful and unslick, and that's apparently just what [Aniston] has always needed to grow into a movie career."
-- Jay Boyar, ORLANDO SENTINEL
"Something in this film sticks to you more than you think it will while you’re watching it. And I think that something is the superb, jarringly resonant central performance by Jennifer Aniston."
-- Josef Braun, VUE WEEKLY (EDMONTON, CANADA)
"...skirts the edges of snide condescension only to then abruptly catch the viewer off-guard with lightning strikes of genuine emotion."
-- Sean Burns, PHILADELPHIA WEEKLY
"Wraps itself in the guise of a dark and quirky comedy, but it isn't as quirky as it thinks it is and its comedy is generally mean-spirited."
-- Jeffrey Chen, WINDOW TO THE MOVIES
"Arteta directs one of the best ensemble casts of the year"
-- Laura Clifford, REELING REVIEWS
"...The Good Girl is a good
end-of-summer movie: deep enough to get your attention, yet lighthearted
enough to not bring you too far down."
-- Rose 'Bams' Cooper, 3BLACKCHICKS REVIEW
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"There's some good material in their story about a retail clerk wanting more out of life, but the movie too often spins its wheels with familiar situations and repetitive scenes."
-- Rod Armstrong, REEL.COM
"At its best, The Good Girl is a refreshingly adult take on adultery..."
-- Sean Axmaker, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
"Succeeds as a moody, evocative, and pleasing film, one that underscores its indie roots in sentiment as well as style."
-- Marjorie Baumgarten, AUSTIN CHRONICLE
"You walk out of The Good Girl with mixed emotions — disapproval of Justine combined with a tinge of understanding for her actions."
-- Bob Bloom, JOURNAL AND COURIER (LAFAYETTE, IN)
"The performances are uniformly good."
-- Liz Braun, JAM! MOVIES
"A funny and well-contructed black comedy where the old adage "be careful what you wish for" is given a full workout."
-- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, SPIRITUALITY AND HEALTH
"By turns very dark and very funny."
-- Robert W. Butler, KANSAS CITY STAR
"Mike White’s deft combination of serious subject matter and dark, funny humor make “”The Good Girl” a film worth watching."
-- Robin Clifford, REELING REVIEWS
"Good movie. Good actress. But if you expect light romantic comedy, good gosh, will you be shocked."
-- Linda Cook, QUAD CITY TIMES (DAVENPORT, IA)
"There is not an ounce of honesty in the entire production."
-- David Cornelius, AMAZING COLOSSAL WEBSITE
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Avg. Rating: 6.8/10 |
"You wouldn't call The Good Girl a date movie (an anti-date movie is more like it), but when it's good, it's good and horrid."
-- John Anderson, NEWSDAY
"An effective portrait of a life in stasis -- of the power of inertia to arrest development in a dead-end existence."
-- James Berardinelli, JAMES BERARDINELLI'S REELVIEWS
"An absorbing, slice-of-depression life that touches nerves and rings true."
-- Duane Byrge, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"Aniston has at last decisively broken with her Friends image in an independent film of satiric fire and emotional turmoil."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"The filmmakers are playing to the Big Boys in New York and L.A. To that end, they mock the kind of folks they don't understand, ones they figure the power-lunchers don't care to understand, either."
-- Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
"White hasn't developed characters so much as caricatures, one-dimensional buffoons that get him a few laughs but nothing else."
-- Rick Groen, GLOBE AND MAIL
"A droll, well-acted, character-driven comedy with unexpected deposits of feeling."
-- J. Hoberman, VILLAGE VOICE
"It's a more believable scenario for infidelity than most such movies, and Aniston gives her all to the role."
-- Peter Howell, TORONTO STAR
"It's tough, astringent, darkly funny and... well, it's also generic, untidy, condescending and mild of impact rather than stunning."
-- Stephen Hunter, WASHINGTON POST
"A smart, arch and rather cold-blooded comedy."
-- Mick LaSalle, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
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"Arteta paints a picture of lives lived in a state of quiet desperation."
-- Jill Cozzi, COZZI FAN TUTTI CELLULOID MUSINGS
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* Who are the Approved Tomatometer Critics?
* Mouse over a tomato icon for a publication's original rating. Original rating not available for every publication.
* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "The Good Girl" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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