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The Good Guy

R Released Feb 19, 2010 1h 30m Comedy Drama Romance List
36% Tomatometer 25 Reviews 30% Audience Score 2,500+ Ratings
Beth (Alexis Bledel), an urban conservationist, wants it all: a good job, good friends, and a good guy to share her life and love of New York. When Beth meets Tommy (Scott Porter), a Wall Street whiz, she falls head over heels in love. It seems that everything is falling into place, but romantic complications arise when Beth meets Daniel, Tommy's sensitive and handsome colleague. Read More Read Less
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The Good Guy has an attractive cast, but they aren't done any favors by the film's cardboard characters and cliched plot.

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David Fear Time Out Rated: 2/5 Nov 17, 2011 Full Review Wesley Morris Boston Globe It's network television drama, starring actors best known for their TV work and full of the petty gripes and mild worries of characters who really have nothing compelling to worry about. Rated: 1.5/4 Mar 4, 2010 Full Review Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times It has smart characters, and is wise about the ones who try to tame their intelligence by acting out. Rated: 3/4 Mar 4, 2010 Full Review Dave White Movies.com Rated: 2/5 Apr 4, 2011 Full Review S. Jhoanna Robledo Common Sense Media High-reaching adult drama with lots of language, drinking. Rated: 2/5 Dec 31, 2010 Full Review Philip Martin Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Mild, pleasant, obvious romantic comedy set on Wall Street that's most notable for its (maybe accurate) portrayal of young brokers as amoral idiots oblivious to the real-life consequences of their risky business. Rated: 83/100 Jul 3, 2010 Full Review Read all reviews

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anthony m Didn't finish it. You quickly hate all the characters Rated 1 out of 5 stars 03/06/24 Full Review Josie W Loved to see a handful of teen drama stars fresh out of their tv prime being thrown into an incoherent roller coaster of a plot with no depth, no direction, and hardly a clue how to make it feel like... anything. I'll give it one thing though; it has mastered the art of making a fairly short watch feel very, very long. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 09/24/23 Full Review dave j Co-produced, written and directed by Julio DePietro with the movie opens with a young man ringing on the door of a girl's apartment who is with another guy. And by the time the girl decides to come downstairs, she then hands him some money and says she pities him. He walks away sulking. At this point viewers do not know what kind of relationship this is but on the next scene the movie steps back 6 weeks earlier. And as it turns out, the guy that was banging on the door is really an wall street trader, Tommy (Scott Porter) and that the girl "was" his girlfriend Beth(Alexis Bledel) as we see how they first met which he saw her at a book club. And as the movie continues, we are then introduced to someone of an introvert named Daniel (Bryan Greenberg) the third person who was at her apartment at the beginning. Apparently, Tommy was looking for another man since the previous insider wall street trader left for another firm who was offering more money, and Tommy was given the task of finding anther replacement to fill in the gap so to speak. So when Tommy and his friends are hanging out at a pub, it is when he meets Daniel as a server and offers him a better job as a insider trader. Spoil And it is during then we also see Tommy's affairs with other women even though he already has a girlfriend named Beth who she seems to have more in common with Daniel than the current boyfriend she is dating. What ends up happening she bumps into one of Tommy's ex's and learns she is still sleeping with her. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Seppure nel complesso questa commedia romantica non sia malvagia, sono troppi gli aspetti poco originali al suo interno. Inspiegabile poi la scelta di utilizzare come prima scena, le immagini che fanno già capire la direzione del film; tolgono quel poco di gusto e di brio che ci sarebbe potuto essere altrimenti. E basta stereotipare gli agenti di borsa. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review steve d Bledel is good the script is extremely bad, slow moving, and not remotely romantic. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Terrible. I wish I hadn't wasted the time it took to watch this. The script could have been written by a 2nd grader it's so predictable. I can't even put into words just how much I absolutely despise this movie. In all honesty it's probably the worst movie I've ever seen. How did any production company allow such a god awful idea to be brought to life? If you enjoy this movie you're probably just a simp with no ambition who only looks forward to vicariously living through hopeless movies like this one. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Beth (Alexis Bledel), an urban conservationist, wants it all: a good job, good friends, and a good guy to share her life and love of New York. When Beth meets Tommy (Scott Porter), a Wall Street whiz, she falls head over heels in love. It seems that everything is falling into place, but romantic complications arise when Beth meets Daniel, Tommy's sensitive and handsome colleague.
Director
Julio DePietro
Producer
Julio DePietro, Linda Moran, Rene Bastian
Screenwriter
Julio DePietro
Distributor
Roadside Attractions
Production Co
Belladonna Productions LLC
Rating
R (Some Sexual Content|Pervasive Language)
Genre
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Feb 19, 2010, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
May 8, 2012
Box Office (Gross USA)
$100.5K
Runtime
1h 30m
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