The Goodbye Girl (2004)

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

That was an excellent one.

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

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.

Paula McFadden (Patricia Heaton) is 36 and a little too old to be a dancer. She is left behind by her married actor boyfriend Tony DeForrest for a job in Italy. She doesn't have any money staying in the apartment with her daughter Lucy (Hallie Kate Eisenberg). It turns out that Tony sublet his apartment to Elliot Garfield (Jeff Daniels) out from under her. She refuses to leave and Elliot reluctantly agrees to let her stay.Patricia Heaton is wrong for this role. She can't pull off even a former dancer. Also I don't think that she's quite right to be Eisenberg's mom. She's much better in a soccer mom role. Daniels is charming. Eisenberg is great as the talkative little girl. The Neil Simon play is still good but everything is a little bit off. The '77 movie is perfectly fine. This feels like a faded copy. The apartment doesn't have quite the NYC feel. I do like Eisenberg with Daniels and their scene together is great. Basically the movie feels wrong but it still has the essence of a good story.

The Goodbye Girl was a classic from the 70's starring Richard Dreyfuss,Marsha Mason and an excellent performance by a young Quinn Cummings. Dreyfuss won an academy award for his portrayal of Elliott Garfield a struggling actor trying to make it ,Mason as a jilted single mom and the delightful Cummings as her precocious daughter Lucy.For starters,why would you need to remake it in the first place and then disgrace it with a run of the mill TV movie of the week?. I'm not a big Jeff Daniels fan but even he deserves better ,he should have turned down the role- He is no Dreyfuss and watching him deliver the same lines is painful. Patricia Heaton(another irritating actress)is basically reprising her Everybody Loves Raymond's Debra character which isn't saying much(Why did she get nominated for a SAG award in the Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries category?,she was horrible- just goes to show you that SAG voters have bad taste). The little brat who plays Lucy is none other then Hallie Kate Eisenberg - if you don't remember her your excused.She was another sickeningly sweet little girl who did Pepsi commericals when Pepsi was trying to reinvent itself(snore).According to IMDb ,she is just adored by fans and is a regular guest on Leno. I don't watch Leno and could care less. Dakota Fanning could act circles around Eisenberg who has all the cuteness of a wet sponge.

I didn't like this movie. I think it was stupid, boring and unrealistic. The whole movie had a bad plot and a bad ending. There was no humor in the movie. There didn't seem to be any chemistry between the two of them. And so I don't think the acting worked for the movie. It was unrealistic because in the real world, if a single woman with a child had a man come to live with her that she didn't know, i don't think that she would let him in. They didn't know each other for that long, and every minute they were even near each other they were fighting or weren't together or talking. It doesn't seem like they would be able to fall in love that quickly.

I found this movie to be both unrealistic and unfunny. Patricia Heaton and Jeff Daniels made for one of the worst couples I've ever seen in a movie. There was poor chemistry between the two. I thought that the idea of these two people falling in love with each other was funnier then the film itself. Having said that, the lone highlight of the film is Hallie Kate Eisenberg as the young Lucy McFadden. She was the funniest aspect of this film. I also found Alan Cumming as the play director to be quite humorous. But the few laughs I had while watching this would not be enough to recommend this to anyone. This movie should not be meant for anything other than a bad Lifetime movie.