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Good Dick (2008)

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Reviews Counted: 36

Fresh: 17

Rotten:19

Average Rating: 5.2/10

Consensus: Marianna Palka's quirky indie debut centred on two dysfunctional loners is hit and miss, but has enough originality to see it through.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for sexual content and language

Runtime: 85 mins

Genre: Comedies

Theatrical Release:Oct 10, 2008 Limited

Synopsis: Good Dick is a truly original love story. It is also quite funny and a joy to watch. When Anna slinks into an independent video store to check out the latest in erotic offerings, she catches the... Good Dick is a truly original love story. It is also quite funny and a joy to watch. When Anna slinks into an independent video store to check out the latest in erotic offerings, she catches the eye of one of the clerks. He takes it upon himself to break down her emotional barriers and launches on a quest to make her fall in love with him. From the beginning, we see this is not going to be an easy task. Marianna Palka is the tour de force writer, director, and actor behind Good Dick. She surrounds herself with an ensemble of great, young character actors, most notably Jason Ritter, who masters the daunting task of making a total loser (and part-time stalker) into one of the most lovable and eccentric characters in indie film. Deadpan as Anna, Palka is the perfect foil to his persistent come-ons, blatantly rejecting him at every turn. In this exceptionally well-written film, their tortured encounters transition from a bizarre standoff to...well, what they end up with. Like classic Woody Allen, Palka has an uncanny knack for understanding the complex give and take of human interaction and the sometimes painful motivations behind them. In Good Dick, the whole notion of “romance” is turned on its head and refashioned into a more modern—if not more offbeat—image. --© Sundance Film Festival [More]

Starring: Jason Ritter, Marianna Palka, Eric Edelstein, Martin Starr

Starring: Jason Ritter, Marianna Palka, Eric Edelstein, Martin Starr, Mark Webber, Tom Arnold

Director: Marianna Palka

Director: Marianna Palka
Screenwriter: Marianna Palka
Producer: Jennifer Dubin, Cora Olson, Marianna Palka, Jason Ritter
Composer: Jared Nelson Smith
Studio: Good Dick LLC

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One of the weakest competition entries at Sundance Fest this year, this pseudo romantic-erotic feature promises more than it can deliver, and after a cute beginning falls apart.

Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | comment Comment
01/05/09
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

Surely some of the young woman's porn videos would make better viewing.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
11/14/08
Ruthe Stein
San Francisco Chronicle
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In another movie, the boy who pursues this girl would be a serial killer.

Full Review Source: PopMatters | comment Comment
11/14/08
Cynthia Fuchs
PopMatters

All of the most annoying elements of independent cinema are on full display in Good Dick, a painfully awkward attempt at...well, I'm not sure what exactly.

Full Review Source: Giant Magazine | comment Comment
10/18/08
Ethan Alter
Giant Magazine

Marianne Palka's comedy, which she wrote and stars in, lacks the script, acting and the laughs to rise in the marketplace above similar Sundance-style fare, despite the sado-masochistic streak.

Full Review Source: Screen International | comment Comment
10/18/08
David D'Arcy
Screen International

Alternately compelling and dramatically limp, the film scores points for exploring unfamiliar territory but lacks the emotional depth to make some very strange behavior believable.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment Comment
10/18/08
James Greenberg
Hollywood Reporter
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The independently minded have spirits to aflame.

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10/18/08
Jonathan W. Hickman
Entertainment Insiders

A short and sweet anti-romantic comedy, Good Dick puts together a heav ily depressed young woman with a homeless clerk who rents her porn at a Los Angeles video store.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
10/17/08
Lou Lumenick
New York Post
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As irritatingly monosyllabic as its characters, this indie 'romance' -- the quote marks aren't an accident -- feels over-workshopped and false at almost every point.

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10/17/08
Joe Neumaier
New York Daily News
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Dysfunction beguiles in Good Dick, a perverse romantic comedy whose coarse title belies its tender heart.

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10/17/08
Jeannette Catsoulis
New York Times
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Good Dick manages to be a squirmily charming romantic movie, chockablock with surprising details.

Full Review Source: New York Press | comment Comment
10/15/08
Mark Peikert
New York Press

Ultimately, the body part that gets the most play is the mouth, with the hyphenate and her personal-professional partner Ritter trading the sort of sub-Cassavetes banter that screams self-written acting exercises.

Full Review Source: Time Out New York | comment Comment
10/15/08
David Fear
Time Out New York

A distinctly unlikable movie about dislikable people, writer/director/actor Marianna Palka's mumblecore version of dysfunctional romance is the most unromantic picture of the year.

Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | comment Comment
10/15/08
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com

Good Dick carries its messed-up, highly improbable premise so lightly and gracefully that it ultimately comes off as a sweet, plausible and curiously grounded love story.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
10/10/08
Carina Chocano
Los Angeles Times
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Another indie that wears its quirks and gritty "realism" a little too proudly.

Full Review Source: Metromix.com | comment Comment
10/09/08
Geoff Berkshire
Metromix.com

Mostly the movie is eccentric and edgy in childish ways, relying on offhand shock and predictable revelations.

Full Review Source: AV Club | comment Comment
10/09/08
Noel Murray
AV Club

Unfortunately, Good Dick is all high-wire act, determinedly thwarting the expectations of its genre but unable to present a wholly successful alternative to romcom conventionality.

Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly | comment Comment
10/09/08
Tim Grierson
L.A. Weekly

Palka has an eye for authenticity -- the bland LA apartments, growling traffic and isolation of living in a city that requires people to make their own happiness.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
10/08/08
Amy Nicholson
Boxoffice Magazine

The characters are sharp and their dilemmas feel honest, even if we never get all the information we crave.

Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall | comment Comment
10/03/08
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

Things happen eventually but we never really know what ails her or why the boy is so taken by her mute presence.

Full Review Source: This is London | comment Comment
10/03/08
Derek Malcolm
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