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The Good Girl

The Good Girl

2002 · 93 min · EN · R · 6.2 (703 votes)
Dir. Miguel Arteta · Starring Jennifer Aniston, Zooey Deschanel, Jake Gyllenhaal, John Carroll Lynch, Tim Blake Nelson, John C. Reilly · Music Tony Maxwell

“It's her last best chance... is she going to take it?”

DramaComedyRomance

A discount store clerk strikes up an affair with a stock boy who considers himself the incarnation of Holden Caulfield.

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A quietly unsettling portrait of suburban ennui, this film feels like a melancholic sigh. It's a character study steeped in quiet desperation and yearning, exploring the bittersweet escape of forbidden desires against a backdrop of everyday drabness. Expect a mood that's both darkly comedic and profoundly introspective.

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