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Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Mr Black It's been a while since I've seen this film. My original copy was actually on VHS, so had to wait to find a DVD. I like this movie from the start to the finish. Great characters all the way through which for me is the best part of the movie. Great acting as well. You can actually feel Justine's (Jennifer Aniston) pain at being stuck in a small town with a lousy job and the feeling that life is going nowhere. Lots of quirky turns in this film as well as the story goes along. Fun story with a lot o reality to it. I think it's one of Jennifer's best, but then I pretty much like everything she's in. Great actress.

winstonfg Perhaps not; but the message I took away from this movie was much the same as I got from Voltaire's book: - Life may not be great, but it's what we've got; so get on with it.Of course it comes at it from a completely different perspective; and for a 21st century American audience, Holden Caulfield is probably more accessible than Leibnitz; but the theme is similar: Passion is overpublicised and has a "sell by" date; friendship and children are timeless.Structurally, I thought the drabness was a bit overplayed and the action could have moved faster but, all in all, I enjoyed it; and I particularly enjoyed seeing Jennifer Aniston in a movie that allowed her to exercise some acting chops.And the rest of the cast were uniformly good too, with particular kudos to John C. Reilly as JA's husband and John Carroll Lynch as the "store manager".I suspect it was a flop because (a) its message was one nobody really wants to hear, and (b) JA wasn't her usual perky self.But you know what? We all have to grow up sometime. Which is kind of what the movie's about...

maggie-maureen7 About a year and a half ago, around the same time that my love for movies turned into an addiction, I fell in love with IMDb and simultaneously decided that I was going to watch every Jake Gyllenhaal movie made (I happened to love him also). So when I sat down to watch this movie I really had no idea what to expect at all. What I learned over the next 90 minutes was the following: 1. Jake Gyllenhaal is not the focal point in this story 2. Jennifer Aniston can be a hell of a good actress when she applies herself and 3. Sometimes good monologue is not enough to save a film. The Good Girl has all the makings of a good movie. A solid cast, an experienced director, and a gifted writer. Yet something goes awfully wrong in the movie. It aims for a sort of nonchalant humor and while it is at times funny, more often than not it is painfully boring. You might end up walking away wondering 'Why, why did I see that?' Or you might find yourself appreciating the dry bits of humor and Aniston's character's reflections on her life, or lack there of. But the way that I like to examine the viewer value of a film is to ask yourself what you took away from it. And unfortunately, just like in the movie itself, nothing much changed from start to finish except an unsatisfied emptiness that had developed in the pit of my stomach by the time the credits had arrived to say, "It's Over."

KineticSeoul Okay so the basic premise of this movie is about a married woman that works in retail and is unhappy with her life so she goes off and has a affair. Now I am not really a fan of Jennifer Aniston, but it's nice to see she is doing something new and her acting his actually pretty good in this and sort of memorable. The plot just wasn't that good although sort of engaging at times, but that is about it. Lot of the minor characters are pointless in this also and doesn't really serve a purpose in the story and just isn't developed well at all. Jake Gyllenhaal however put on a great performance though, since his character is realistic mostly because I seen some people act the way he does and he played it almost flawlessly. Although his character got weirder as the movie progressed. The movie is sort of like a black comedy with hardly any humor, and the direction just isn't executed very well either. In fact the movie starts out pretty well but I started to lose interest as the film progressed. Overall it's a pretty forgetful movie, the only memorable aspect of this movie is Aniston and Gyllenhaal performances. The other parts are just alright, nothing really special besides the premise of it which I liked.5.5/10