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Good Dick

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A fidgety, wisecracking video store clerk (Jason Ritter) develops a fixation on a particularly reclusive customer (Marianna Palka), a frequent visitor to the pornography section of Cinefile, the video store where he works in Los Angeles. After multiple failures to impress her during their brief daily transactions, he finds her street address in the store's database, drives to her apartment building and initiates an unconventional campaign to win her affections.
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Critics Consensus

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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Ruthe Stein San Francisco Chronicle 11/14/2008
1/4
Surely some of the young woman's porn videos would make better viewing. Go to Full Review
James Greenberg The Hollywood Reporter 10/18/2008
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. Go to Full Review
Lou Lumenick New York Post 10/17/2008
3/4
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. Go to Full Review
Kevin Carr 7M Pictures 06/26/2011
1.5/5
Instead of embodying the fun and spirited fluff that a rom com should be, this film just grinds its teeth through the process. Go to Full Review
Don Groves sbs.com.au 01/02/2011
3/5
A weird love story between two damaged souls. Go to Full Review
John J. Puccio Movie Metropolis 09/07/2009
6/10
...a lot more poignant than most of Hollywood's big-budget, star-studded takes on the subject. Go to Full Review
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Ben J Sep 4 For fans of mumble core drama. Want to watch humans learn to love each other and deal with their awkward trauma? Sometimes boundaries need to be pushed by others in order to grow emotionally. Sometimes that means watching porn with a relative stranger. See more Jul 9 I liked it, a lot. I love a good love story. It's not your conventional love story but I found it sweet, enduring and funny. I was team "the man" from beginning to end; watch and you will understand. 😃 See more Stacey K 07/13/2023 A film about unconventional love, struggles, and healing. It's not a sexy film and it's not trying to be. I found it very light hearted and funny. However, the characters do have their dark pasts and that does play into the comedy. See more Amanda L 11/07/2022 This is not a movie for the faint of heart. If you can look at addiction and isolation as the aftermath of child abuse, by all means give Good Dick a chance. The connection made by the protagonists might strike you, as it did me, as deep and fearless. But if you're the type to classify drug users and porn watchers as inherent degenerates, the harrowing baggage of the two main characters will be lost on you. See more 06/30/2020 I watched it because it was free on Amazon. I thought it would be a fun movie. (I just read the Amazon summary and no reviews.) It was painful to watch. The guy is annoying. He probably should have gone to jail for stalking. Both the guy and her father did a lot of help the woman and she is rude, mean and ungrateful for the kindness that she does receive in life. We assume that the woman must have gone through some trauma, but no idea what. The guy has some issues, but again, we don't know what. Finally, the movie is called "Good Dick" and there was nothing sexy about the movie. So the girl rents porn sometimes. However, none of the characters ever have any sex with each other. While not a requirement, probably should not name a movie about people too fucked up to have sex, Good Dick. To be fair, I was looking for a light "date night" movie and this is definitely not that. See more 03/20/2020 Not very good at all . Was a quarantine selection and it shoulda stayed in the vault . I thought it was going to be more of a laughing type comedy but it wasn’t 1.7/5 See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis A fidgety, wisecracking video store clerk (Jason Ritter) develops a fixation on a particularly reclusive customer (Marianna Palka), a frequent visitor to the pornography section of Cinefile, the video store where he works in Los Angeles. After multiple failures to impress her during their brief daily transactions, he finds her street address in the store's database, drives to her apartment building and initiates an unconventional campaign to win her affections.
Director
Marianna Palka
Producer
Jennifer Dubin, Cora Olson, Marianna Palka, Jason Ritter
Screenwriter
Marianna Palka
Production Co
Present Pictures, Morning Knight, Good Dick
Rating
R (Language|Sexual Content)
Genre
Romance, Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Oct 10, 2008, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
May 8, 2015
Runtime
1h 26m
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