I'm so glad I found this movie on DVD! I used to have the blue VHS version and watched it for the first time in 2009. After all these years, I still love 'The Good Girl.' Jennifer Aniston plays such a stunning role in this classic about a girl whos "put upon" by society and falls for a very disturbed young man to escape her marriage. A beautiful blessing comes out of the mess in the end. Seriously, a movie I can watch over and over again!
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This Indy flick shows Jennifer Anniston has got the chops for acting. You think she will be like her Friends character or a copy of the perky good-looking girl as in most of her other movies and you will be delightfully surprised. Not only does she become the average small town girl, you agonize along with her and her troubles. Jake Gyllenhaal plays a very troubled and naive young man who thinks he finds everything in Anniston's character. His performance is very good as he sheds his boyish good looks and becomes the wierd, depressed Holden, who has adopted the name from The Catcher in the Rye because it is the identity he sees as himself and takes it upon him. Each of the characters is very well acted and interesting and this will have you captivated for the duration of the movie. Though it is very close to reality, I found myself identifying with it immensely, there is enough differnce to keep you enthralled and safely away from the characters. The bonus material is not what makes this worth the purchase. This movie is a very solid movie. If you are a fan of any of the actors, you should definitely add this to your collection. If you are a fan of good indie movies, you should add this movie to your collection.Read full review
The first time i watched this movie I truely I couldn't get through it.... It was so boring. But with my DVD player set to repeat play, and my lack of need to sleep and just being too lazy to change the movie, {I thought it would bore me to sleep}. I actually watched it in it's entirety. And I completely changed my mind. Although it is a movie to watch on a cold rainy day, when your life feels like it can't get any worse. Somehow you understand why she had an affair. Feeling bad when her lover ends up dead, hating the stupid husband but understanding everything. Other recommendation with this movie is the waitress....runs the same line with a different outcome.
This movie is that plum parking space that you almost drove right by. It's so inconspicuous and so obviously "involved" that you'd expect it to be indulgent and cliché; actually, it's neither of those killjoys. It's unpredictable in just the right places, and absolutely hilarious in its few corny spots. Aniston is the perpetual virgin (yes, she's married and adulterous, but she stays soft and squeaky clean, go figure) -- how she pulls that off is beyond me, but quite enthralling to witness. Her average husband (John C. Reilly, who reliably mines excellence from the depths of his "average-ness") is as lost as she is in their mundane marriage -- except he accepts his boring life. She doesn't. She finds refuge in her new coworker's adolescent angst. Gyllenhaal expertly tempers the intermittent blaze and smolder of his brooding character. All the characters are entirely engaging, and that's what makes this film so real, and such a keeper. (We don't watch this with our kids, because it's sexually explicit in quite a few places, but this movie is still a very fun way to spend an evening.)Read full review
***MINIMAL SPOILERS*** Jennifer Aniston is Justine, a clerk by day at the going-nowhere-anytime-soon Retail Rodeo, the local supermarket in a Texas town. She is bored out of her mind, and unhappy with her marriage, due to her husband Phil's ( John C. Reilly) similar going-nowhere painting jobs and partying with fellow painter Bubba( Tim Blake Nelson). Add the fact that Phil's partying is contributing to his low sperm count, which is preventing Justine from achieving her personal goal of ever having children. The plot gets into gear when Justine meets a new employee, Holden( Jake Gyllenhaal), who thinks that he is the character in J.D. Salinger's book "Cather in the Rye". Soon the plod into an affair, and Justine's life gets REAL complicated. Oh whet a web we weave when we intend to deceive...Read full review
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