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Good Dick

Good Dick (2007)

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Average Rating: 5.3/10
Reviews Counted: 41
Fresh: 21 | Rotten: 20

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

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Average Rating: 4.9/10
Critic Reviews: 8
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 4

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

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Movie Info

When a lonely young girl named Anna walks into her local independent video store in search of an erotic film, the clerk behind the counter vows to transcend her emotional barriers and win her heart in this quirky relationship comedy written, directed by, and starring Marianna Palka. Though the lovelorn clerk in question (Jason Ritter) is a bit of a creep and perhaps even a potential stalker, the contentious relationship forged between the pair as he repeatedly seeks Anna's affections (and is

R, 1 hr. 27 min.

Drama, Art House & International, Comedy

Marianna Palka

Sep 1, 2009

42 West

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All Critics (42) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (23) | Rotten (20) | DVD (4)

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

November 14, 2008 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
San Francisco Chronicle
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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.

October 18, 2008 Comment
Hollywood Reporter
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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.

October 17, 2008 Full Review Source: New York Post | Comment
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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.

October 17, 2008 Full Review Source: New York Daily News | Comment
New York Daily News
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Dysfunction beguiles in Good Dick, a perverse romantic comedy whose coarse title belies its tender heart.

October 17, 2008 Comment
New York Times
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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.

October 10, 2008 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | Comment
Los Angeles Times
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Instead of embodying the fun and spirited fluff that a rom com should be, this film just grinds its teeth through the process.

June 26, 2011 Full Review Source: 7M Pictures | Comment
7M Pictures

A weird love story between two damaged souls.

January 2, 2011 Full Review Source: sbs.com.au | Comment
sbs.com.au

I wonder if it wasn't the movie's title and the movie's talkativeness that put off potential distributors; I hope these things won't put off potential DVD viewers.

September 7, 2009 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

...a lot more poignant than most of Hollywood's big-budget, star-studded takes on the subject.

September 7, 2009 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

A barbed love story wrapped inside a threadbare character drama of swallowed anger and despair, Marianna Palka's film eschews the achingly manufactured quirkiness or shaggy desire to please of so many of its American indie brethren.

September 4, 2009 Full Review Source: Shared Darkness | Comment
Shared Darkness

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.

January 5, 2009 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | Comments (2)

In another movie, the boy who pursues this girl would be a serial killer.

November 14, 2008 Full Review Source: PopMatters | Comment
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.

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Giant Magazine | Comment
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.

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Screen International | Comment
Screen International

The independently minded have spirits to aflame.

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Entertainment Insiders | Comment
Entertainment Insiders

Good Dick manages to be a squirmily charming romantic movie, chockablock with surprising details.

October 15, 2008 Full Review Source: New York Press | Comment
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.

October 15, 2008 Full Review Source: Time Out New York | Comment
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.

October 15, 2008 Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | Comment (1)
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Audience Reviews for Good Dick

This movie trumps Punch-Drunk Love for strangest on-screen couple in a movie I've seen in recent months.

July 7, 2010
djdemersseman

Super Reviewer

Very odd yet I completely loved it. Indie flick that doesn't seem so indie... Love the storyline, even though it's a bit crude, and am pleased with the results. Jason & Marianna were quite believable in their roles.

January 4, 2010
dreamfaeries

Super Reviewer

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