The Good Girl
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| Directed by | Miguel Arteta |
| Produced by | Matthew Greenfield |
| Written by | Mike White |
| Starring | Jennifer Aniston Jake Gyllenhaal John C. Reilly Zooey Deschanel |
| Distributed by | Fox Searchlight Pictures |
| Release date(s) | August 7, 2002 |
| Running time | 93 min |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $8,000,000 |
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The Good Girl is a 2002 film from the Chuck & Buck team, with director Miguel Arteta and writer Mike White.
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[edit] Plot
Justine Last (Aniston) faces a boring routine life working at the Retail Rodeo discount store and married to her pot-smoking husband (Reilly) until she meets fellow worker Thomas Worther (Gyllenhaal), who calls himself "Holden" after Holden Caulfield, the narrator of his favorite novel, The Catcher in the Rye. The two become friends and spark an affair that brings fleeting comfort for Justine as much as it threatens to ruin her marriage and reputation. As the affair heats into an obsession, Justine must decide whether to keep the life she has or leave it behind.
[edit] Inspiration
The story is a modern reworking of Flaubert's Madame Bovary.[citation needed]
The film derives inspiration and source material from The Sorrows of Young Werther, a loosely autobiographical novel by Johann Wolfgang Goethe about a suicide and unrequited love.[citation needed] This is especially notable due to Thomas's last name, "Worther".
[edit] Cast
- Jennifer Aniston as Justine Last
- Jake Gyllenhaal as Thomas "Holden" Worther
- John C. Reilly as Phil Last
- John Carroll Lynch as Jack Field, store manager
- Tim Blake Nelson as Bubba, Phil's best friend
- Zooey Deschanel as Cheryl, on the PA, then make-up in the store
- Mike White as Corny, security guard
[edit] External links
- Official website
- The Good Girl at the Internet Movie Database
- Cloverfield Press, producer Matthew Greenfield's publishing company
