Good start, but then it gets ruined

Fantastic!

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

I am not a huge Jennifer Aniston fan, but she does great work in "The Good Girl." Without a word of dialogue, Ms. Aniston as Justine Last communicates the despair of a woman trapped in a boring marriage, employed at a dead-end job at a Walmart-like store in a nothing small town.For a time, Justine rebels against her life "Of Quiet Desperation" and starts a reckless affair with Jake Gyllenhaal's character Holden Worther.Justine is on the verge of escape,but in the end chooses stability over rebellion, because she is after all "The Good Girl."

Okay so the basic premise of this movie is about a married woman that works in retail and is unhappy with her life so she goes off and has a affair. Now I am not really a fan of Jennifer Aniston, but it's nice to see she is doing something new and her acting his actually pretty good in this and sort of memorable. The plot just wasn't that good although sort of engaging at times, but that is about it. Lot of the minor characters are pointless in this also and doesn't really serve a purpose in the story and just isn't developed well at all. Jake Gyllenhaal however put on a great performance though, since his character is realistic mostly because I seen some people act the way he does and he played it almost flawlessly. Although his character got weirder as the movie progressed. The movie is sort of like a black comedy with hardly any humor, and the direction just isn't executed very well either. In fact the movie starts out pretty well but I started to lose interest as the film progressed. Overall it's a pretty forgetful movie, the only memorable aspect of this movie is Aniston and Gyllenhaal performances. The other parts are just alright, nothing really special besides the premise of it which I liked.5.5/10

We're so used to seeing Jeniifer Aniston in all of these dreadful romance movies, like Love happens(ugh). But there were times where she did something fresh. Like her role in friends, and in 2002's The Good girl, which she gives her best performance.Aniston plays Justine, a woman who is in a marriage that she can't stand, a job she can't stand. Well, to sum it up, she is depressed.He life changes and goes downhill when she meets Holden(played terrificly by Jake Gylenhaal), who also hates his life.So from then on the two begins to sleep with each other. And eventually her husband's(played by John C. Reilly) friend(played by Tim Blake Nelson) finds out and blackmails her with sex. And the film really spirals out of control onto dark comedy material.The good girl is really original and really funny. And a tad bit insane. And very surprising. The performance by Jennifer Aniston is her best. This is also director Miguel Arteta's(Youth in revolt) best film too. The Good girl is a great film. It's really not what you're expecting. It's funny, dramatic, dark. One of the best films of 2002. I loved this movie.The Good girl:4/4

I didn't really know anything about the concept for this independent film, I think it was the cast that was appealing to me. Basically young married Justine Last (Jennifer Aniston) has her her mundane life taking a turn when she begins a passionate and illicit affair with fellow discount store worker Holden Worther (Jake Gyllenhaal). She has said to herself she hates living with husband Phil (John C. Reilly) and his friend Bubba (Tim Blake Nelson) who constantly get high and drunk. Things get complicated when Justine has to deal with the death of co-worker and friend Gwen Jackson (American Pie: The Wedding's Deborah Rush), and Holden starts drinking and stealing because of the lack of seeing Justine. Also Bubba finds out about the affair and blackmails her into sex, and Justine gets pregnant, and with the reveal of a low sperm count, Phil has the truth told too. In the end, Holden commits suicide, and Justine accepts living her life with Phil and the new baby girl. Also starring Elf's Zooey Deschanel as Cheryl, Mike White as Corny and Volcano's John Carroll Lynch as Your Store Manager Jack Field. Aniston does surprisingly well in this quite serious role, and the supporting cast, especially Deschanel, all make the characters much more likable than possible the story, which is does seem more dramatic than comedic, but a good film nonetheless. Worth watching!