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Poor Justine Last (Jennifer Aniston). When she gets home from clerking at Retail Rodeo, her life is even more awful. Her husband (John C. Reilly) is a house painter with a disastrous sperm count. Mostly he sits around stoned, watching inane TV. No wonder Justine starts making eyes at Holden (Jake Gyllenhaal), the cute new guy at work. He has borrowed his name from The Catcher in the Rye, but his soulful air masks a dangerous obsessiveness...
What makes The Good Girl worthwhile is its performances. All the actors play their entrapment with a weirdly convicted blankness. That's especially true of Aniston. Her Justine is short on book learning, but her instincts are sound. Her escapist strivings lead her into deep, even violent, victimization. Yet you remain invested in her, hoping she will escape her dim fate, hoping this patronizing film will rise above its mostly false sympathy for the American underclass...
Friends: Jennifer Aniston...
...ourselves about the prospects come September. "Friends" is probably a shoo-in for comedy, as is Jennifer Aniston (who's certainly deserving enough) for best actress. "The West Wing," which had its weakest season to date, will probably win the drama category, because it has for the last two years. True, "Six Feet Under" got more nominations, but the fact remains that Emmy voters do not like to recognize cable series, period. "Six Feet Under's" situation is especially unusual this year, because it was actually nominated for two seasons in one year: season one, which ran last summer...
Miramax has the sharp sex comedy Tadpole (opening July 19) on its summer slate, says Gill, because "a very sophisticated comedy is much tougher to release in the fall, when there are sophisticated dramas." Fox Searchlight is putting out The Good Girl, a dark comedy starring Jennifer Aniston, on Aug. 7, and duplicating the carefully mapped out release pattern it used for The Deep End last year. Like many indie films, The Good Girl will open first in New York City and Los Angeles. "When you don't have big TV-advertising budgets and you're really relying on publicity...