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The Good Girl
Thirty years old Justine is a good girl, but she is dissatisfied by her routine and disgusted by her lazy, pot-smoking husband. Then she strikes up an affair with a stock boy who considers himself the incarnation of Holden Caulfield.
27 July 1952, Trenton, New Jersey, USA
17 January 1980, Los Angeles, California, USA
1 August 1963, Boulder, Colorado, USA
28 November 1978, Chicago, Illinois, USA
25 February 1953, Decatur, Illinois, USA
11 May 1964, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
January 07, 2005
Aniston shows promising signs of a post-sitcom career with her convincing and understated dramatic work.
August 21, 2002
White hasn't developed characters so much as caricatures, one-dimensional buffoons that get him a few laughs but nothing else.
August 22, 2002
It's soulful and unslick, and that's apparently just what [Aniston] has always needed to grow into a movie career.
September 30, 2005
In the long run, The Good Girl will be remembered more as a chance for Jennifer Aniston to wet her acting chops than for anything else.
July 02, 2008
In Miguel Arteta's quirky indie feature, Jennifer Aniston searches for meaning and passion in a swirl of suburban malaise and ironically may have finally found a character who can reveal the shades of her talent.
April 29, 2009
Jennifer Aniston is excellent in what is the best performance of her career, yet.
February 09, 2006
I wish I could say I liked it more, but despite a smattering of priceless moments, The Good Girl gets bogged down in the very narrowness that afflicts Justine.
July 14, 2007
After languishing in second-banana roles in such films as Picture Perfect and Rock Star, Ms. Aniston here creates a fully realized character of surprising nuance and depth.
November 06, 2002
Once fans recover from the shock, they'll discover that this sitcom actress has the chops to tackle some pretty heavy stuff.
August 21, 2002
An absorbing, slice-of-depression life that touches nerves and rings true.
March 31, 2009
A warmly satisfying comedy about dissatisfied people seeking to escape from the personal prison of their mundane lives in soulless suburbia.
June 07, 2011
Arteta's third feature is good step in the right direction, for him as a disrector and for Jennifer Anniston as an actress