...a lot more poignant than most of Hollywood's big-budget, star-studded takes on the subject.
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09/07/09
Good Dick (2008)
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Reviews Counted:37
Fresh:18
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.
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... [More]
Starring: Jason Ritter, Marianna Palka, Eric Edelstein, Martin Starr
Director: Marianna Palka
Reviews for Good Dick
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.
01/05/09
Surely some of the young woman's porn videos would make better viewing.
11/14/08
In another movie, the boy who pursues this girl would be a serial killer.
11/14/08
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.
10/18/08
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.
10/18/08
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.
10/18/08
The independently minded have spirits to aflame.
10/18/08
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.
10/17/08
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.
10/17/08
Dysfunction beguiles in Good Dick, a perverse romantic comedy whose coarse title belies its tender heart.
10/17/08
Top CriticGood Dick manages to be a squirmily charming romantic movie, chockablock with surprising details.
10/15/08
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.
10/15/08
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.
10/15/08
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.
10/10/08
Top CriticAnother indie that wears its quirks and gritty "realism" a little too proudly.
10/09/08
Mostly the movie is eccentric and edgy in childish ways, relying on offhand shock and predictable revelations.
10/09/08
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.
10/09/08
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.
10/08/08
The characters are sharp and their dilemmas feel honest, even if we never get all the information we crave.
10/03/08
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