Good Dick (2008)

Sadly Over-hyped

One of my all time favorites.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Jason Ritter plays a lonely video store clerk who sleeps in his car. He starts stalking and hounding a recluse (Marianna Palka) who rents soft-core porn from the store. She is haunted by her past and keeps pushing everybody away. He is relentless in his courtship and willing to make up big lies to connect with her.This is an off-kilter indie. It's trying to be lovably quirky with some dark material. The characters have serious problems. It's not your average romance. It's a good effort for first time writer/director Marianna Palka. It would be more compelling if the tone is even darker. I don't think the movie could be lighter in tone. It's an interesting movie that doesn't completely work.

This movie is great, except that she should have been having permanent pleasure like the o, like all the time she is walking, eating looking, she is having o... (illegal word on this site) and she does not move but she dances, somewhat like in the Indian dances, she dances in ecstasy her hands up in the air somewhat like in the flamenco dance. her hands move like enchanted birds and that way she should dance to the store and back,all the time,like a musical with fast trans music. And so she should be dancing towards the video store taking the porn, dancing back home and then totally constantly flying away after having a tiny little blow.So that would be a great movie. Why doesn't he (the main character) understand that her life is perfect?yeah she might die of not eating but in fact she has won already, she has permanent o. Yes, she has won already, I mean my fictitious character. Does anyone share my opinion of this movie?please send me a message. I hope this site give notifiers.

I do not think this movie was as fantastic as other reviewers seem to claim it. It did not have a significant story line and I felt no love or connection to the characters. I felt the plot was random and empty and the movie was not necessarily put together well. My favorite characters in the movie were the other guys that worked in the video store- and they had a small contribution to the plot progression (which didn't exactly "progress"). After reading the synopsis I was pretty let down by the movie. The synopsis had a better story line than the movie did. I was actually dreadfully bored when watching "Good Dick" but I continued to watch it in hopes that something extravagant would happen. But that never happened, so instead I finished a movie that I was, to put it bluntly, disappointed in Sundance for.

Marianna Palka's Good Dick is a fascinating romantic drama with a take that on the genre that you probably haven't seen before (or at least done this well).A woman who goes to her local video store daily to rent soft core porn becomes the object of affection for the video clerk. It's a simple situational setup that masks the layers beneath. The woman is cold and distant and seemingly not interested in a relationship, of any kind, despite the constant attempts by the video clerk. In fact she treats him pretty bad. Not until the end when we meet her father do we really understand her. She's been sexually abused by him, the first man in her life, and that shapes how she interacts with other men. It now becomes interesting that her erotic interest lie in soft core porn (porn without penetration as the clerk tells her). The clerk too isn't without issues to be addressed. He's battled drug addiction which may explain his addictive personality and why he won't give up on her despite the vitriolic insults and humiliation she dishes.It's been said that hurt people hurt people, and that concept is exemplified well in this film. She treats him bad because that's what she knows. She maintains control of their relationship because she knows how awful it feels to be the one being controlled. Many times throughout the film she dominates him (even simulating rape) to humiliation, and it's painfully clear that she's been through hell.Through it all we are left with a hopeful ending. A confrontation with her father and reconciliation with her video clerk are small steps in her progression. In the end we're left with two damaged people moving forward together. Hopeful, indeed.(Be careful Googling this one - the title may lead you to the dark side of the web!