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  • 2007
  • R
  • Yari Film Group Releasing
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2007
  • R
  • Yari Film Group Releasing
  • 1 h 33 m

Summary In The Good Night, dreaming is believing, as Gary, a once successful musician, struggles with his career and an inert relationship with his girlfriend Dora. As his work as a commercial jingle writer spirals into even more degrading depths, his best friend and former band mate, Paul, seems to find success at every turn. Gary is depressed ...

Directed By: Jake Paltrow

Written By: Jake Paltrow

  • 2007
  • R
  • Yari Film Group Releasing
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2007
  • R
  • Yari Film Group Releasing
  • 1 h 33 m

The Good Night

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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Summary In The Good Night, dreaming is believing, as Gary, a once successful musician, struggles with his career and an inert relationship with his girlfriend Dora. As his work as a commercial jingle writer spirals into even more degrading depths, his best friend and former band mate, Paul, seems to find success at every turn. Gary is depressed ...

Directed By: Jake Paltrow

Written By: Jake Paltrow

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 12 Critic Reviews
49
25% Positive
3 Reviews
67% Mixed
8 Reviews
8% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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Though its forays into the subconscious may strike more adventurous cinematic palettes as precious and unimaginative, few will be able to resist Martin Freeman's appealing lead turn or the wry Brit wit that gives this fanciful confection a robust comic core.
By Justin Chang FULL REVIEW
67
The filmmaker's got good taste -- and luck -- in casting.
By Lisa Schwarzbaum FULL REVIEW
50
The Good Night has flashes of bookish wit but never quite recovers from the metronomic monotony of its first half, which ticktocks between scenes of Paltrow braying and Cruz voguing.
By Jan Stuart FULL REVIEW
50
The Good Night is at heart a mediocre Sundance variation on the Dudley Moore-Bo Derek alleged classic "10."
By Lou Lumenick FULL REVIEW
50
Director Jake Paltrow's feature debut has all the hallmarks of an earnest young man's feature debut, and while that is not necessarily a bad thing, I can only imagine that it fit Sundance like a fingerless glove when it had its premiere there earlier this year.
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The comedy of male midlife angst dates back at least to “The Seven-Year Itch,” when it was sweet and innocent. Each time it is recycled, it gets more sour and joyless.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
38
The movie's film-studentish navel-gazing wears thin long before its over.
By Maitland McDonagh FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Good Night Productions, Inferno Distribution, Destination Films, Grosvenor Park Media, MHF Zweite Academy Film, SunJive Studios, Tempesta Films
Release Date Oct 5, 2007
Duration 1 h 33 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline A comedic fantasy.
Website http://www.thegoodnightfilm.com/
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Awards

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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