The Good Girl (2002)
Yecch. A sour, hateful film disguised as a sympathetic portrait of a woman on the edge of a midlife crisis. I knew this film wasn't going to be for me when Jake Gyllenhaal, as Holden, announced he was reading The Catcher in the Rye. To the film's credit, it does later savagely dismantle that kind of angsty poseur attitude, but it seems to come less out of a desire to say something interesting than it does the desire to point and laugh. If Mike White really thinks these characters are morons worthy of ridicule, why would he bother writing them? Low point is the ridiculous scene with the blackberries; sole point of interest is Zooey Deschanel's dryly funny performance.
Grade: C-
Yecch. A sour, hateful film disguised as a sympathetic portrait of a woman on the edge of a midlife crisis. I knew this film wasn't going to be for me when Jake Gyllenhaal, as Holden, announced he was reading The Catcher in the Rye. To the film's credit, it does later savagely dismantle that kind of angsty poseur attitude, but it seems to come less out of a desire to say something interesting than it does the desire to point and laugh. If Mike White really thinks these characters are morons worthy of ridicule, why would he bother writing them? Low point is the ridiculous scene with the blackberries; sole point of interest is Zooey Deschanel's dryly funny performance.
Grade: C-
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