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This film is definitely 'watchable.' Its the sort of film you start to watch expecting very little from but end up very satisfied you decided to 'give it a go.'

Marianna Palka who directed/wrote and stars in this is a fine actress who right at the start reminded me of Helena Bonham Carter for some reason (please feel free to disagree) - she is certainly a talent worth keeping a eye on.

Overall a good film that will leave you pleased you viewed it. Possibly better to rent than to go to the cinema, but that I suppose is my own interpretation!

Enjoy.

I absolutely loved this movie! Pulls me in, every time I watch it! I found myself thinking, how these characters are very much like the people I see around me everyday. Complicated, interesting, emotionally twisted, flawed human beings, just looking to be loved and accepted.

Some people, like the character that (Jason Ritter) plays, are an open page when it comes to giving their heart away. Eager to take risks at love, even if that means opening your heart to a load of pain. Like an addict, knowing full well the consequences that will have to be paid seeking out this alluring drug, nevertheless, they are driven to seek it out, like a moth to the flame...

Ritters character, has an innocent charm about him. A boyish lovable quality, that is undeniable. You can clearly see the flaws in him, but strangely, you look away, taking a risk on him, in the chance that he will redeem himself once again. He is relentless in his efforts to win the heart and attention of this emotionally damaged, and yet highly intelligent woman. How many people do we know like this is our own lives??? These irresistible charmers that seem to win their way into our hearts against our own better judgment?

Palka's character, clearly a highly intelligent woman, who can verbally bash a man into a bloody pulp, has been verbally and sexually abused by her father, since she was a little girl. We later see her emotionally unravel, as Ritters character, bravely tries to pull her out from her isolated world, breaking the routine of her dysfunctional patterns.

I am constantly reminded as I watch this film, how real these characters are! They are not unlike so many of the dysfunctional people around us. Misfit, loners, abused and wounded by the predators of this world, left to cope with the damage they leave behind. It takes tremendous courage to open your self up to love and healing, after such abuse and betrayal of trust has been broken. These two characters portray that there is hope in the healing power of love!

Essentially a two-character play in three acts, "The Good Dick" strives for a different kind of modern take on relationships but doesn't quite hit the mark. Actress/writer/director Marianna Palka does not have much acting experience and it shows: she never allows us to see more than one note of her character and a pivotal scene with Tom Arnold as her father falls flat. Although this is a flawed movie, there is much to like here, however. Jason Ritter is the best thing about this thinly plotted indie "anti-romance." The scenes of Ritter and his video store pals (including Martin Starr, one Director Judd Apatow's regular players) provide a nice backdrop for the main romance. And, Ritter's desperate need for human connection feels sincere - you are rooting for him despite the seemingly impossible quest to reach Palka's damaged character. Viewers, however, may be let down at the end when things get wrapped up a bit too cleanly, like a bad Lifetime movie. I would have liked to see Palka's character struggle more with her own demons and find a way out that was less predictable and abrupt.

Good dick is a small chapter in life of two young people which could become their most unforgettable chapter in their lives...or not! A video rental guy starts to show interest upon a troubled looking young women who visits his shop for some adult rated movies.He hence involves in a pursuit of knowing more about this women. The rest of the movie revolves around on this theory. There is nothing else to talk much about this movie as it would be revealing the entire plot.I would classify this movie under the Romance/Drama genre. What i could rather talk about is this movie has got good soundtrack,visuals,characterization,and a different storyline and also a fact that not every video rental guy is a tom cruise or a keanu reeves and also that they don't always end up with a cameron diaz or drew barrymore!(No offence people-am a big fan of all of u). This movie has come out as a nice package,but there could have been something solid which could have made a permanent impression on the viewers,am sure this director can deliver one such movie sooner,till then catch this flick from your video rental store!And be a good dick fellas!

I didn't connect at all with this movie. Both characters are extremely cruel towards one another: he intimidates her into allowing him to spend the night, while she ridicules his life choices. The acting is fine but it's a dull script, without any momentum. The ending was a pile of confusion.

I saw this movie last night at the Birmingham Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival during the encore showing and really just fell in love with it. The plot was in depth, the characters were amazing, and while some parts of the movie would keep you laughing, there was a deeper meaning hidden in the movie that was very moving. I think everyone watching the movie could find a certain aspect of a character, situation, argument, etc, that they could connect with. The movie put real life issues that many struggle with in perspective. It was not sugar coated or over done but was reality. I loved everything about it and would love to see it again.

Sundance liked this film a whole lot more than I did. I'm not saying it was a waste of time, but it barely registered as thought-provoking entertainment.

Two characters, Marianna Palka (who also wrote and directed) and Jason Ritter (W., Freddy vs. Jason), both dysfunctional in their own way, meet and have some sort of dysfunctional relationship.

There is no sex in this relationship. Well, none involving him. She masturbates to bad porn that he, as a video store clerk, rents her. He can hang out with her, but no touching. She continually heaps abuse upon him. Once, and I would be gone, but he stays and stays and takes it. Is that messed up or what?

Get ready for an ending that you can see coming a mile away.

Wow what a film! Marianna Palka is sensational, what comes to mind to describe a film like this is to imagine clerks blended with garden state with a little Piano on the side interwoven with a deeply serious subject matter that is tackled with intelligence, sensitivity and wisdom.

In my opinion its rare for someone to be able to obviously put so much of themselves into a film they have written, directed and starred in to have enough perspective to be clear in what they are expressing without it losing sight of itself. I never felt that with this film once, which is again another reason to recommend it.

I only reference those films because I hold them in such high regard. This film can be added to that list.

This is film making at its absolute finest. :)

This was just a weird film about 2 weird people. One is Ritter, a video store clerk, and the other is Palka, the girl who rents adult films from his store. He is living in his car but for some reason likes this girl. He gets her address and starts knocking on her door. She is very weird. Ritter finally gets in after telling a sob story about his dead aunt. She basically lets him stay as long as he provides food and doesn't talk to her. He lets her know that he really likes him and she basically is like get away from me. He finally gets to start sleeping in her bed after winning a bet, but she lets it beknown she doesn't find him attractive. Palka seems to have a lot of demons inside of her, but won't admit what's wrong with her. At the end we learn it has something to do with her dad.

FINAL VERDICT: Just a weird character study. If you like quirky, independent, films, then you will probably like this.

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.

The movie is at times a bit slow, and the actress' acting a bit flat but that is part of the whole intriguing plot, which as you suspected at the beginning, is true.

If you're hoping to see porn in the movie just because the descriptions seem to want to tell you that the woman is a porn addict, think differently. The only skin that you'll see is her naked back a few times.

Although the plot unfolds very slowly, that's the point. There are some mental health and abuse issues here, and in real-time most similar interactions would never progress as far as this movie does by the end, and most likely far less successfully as the eventual turnout of the plot.

Interesting, intriguing, not Oscar-candidate but a strong entry especially considering the topic(s) involved.

Good Dick is slice of weirdness.

Funny in a low-fi sort of way with strong drama elements it deals with two people who are damaged by life: the man, Jason Ritter, can't find love, and the woman, Marianne Palka, can't accept love.

She lives through erotic films. He works in a video store. He falls for her and starts spying on her (Not as creepy as it sounds).

What this film, like Lars and the Real Girl, does well is handle some tough issues about sex and sexuality in the format of a romantic comedy drama.

Not wholly successful at least Palka, who wrote, stars, and directs, does produce a film and a character that is worth watching.

Sometimes an uneasy watch, and sometimes just jarring, (Tom Arnold, for example, is basically wrong in our opinion here), it is even experimental in its thinking.

That aside it is watchable and memorable; just don't expect a comedy of belly laugh proportions but rather to be challenged and you may enjoy this more than you know.

To be honest, I'm rather divided by this film. On one hand, I'm intrigued and fascinated by the characters, on the other hand, I'm slightly disturbed.

There's not much story here. Basically, a young video store clerk became obsessed with a rather weird and introverted woman who is a frequent customer. And then he decided to stalk her.

Fair enough, we all have had weird crush on certain somebody we met in our lives and we all may have mentally stalked someone. But to act it out like in this movie is rather disturbing. The movie turned it into a rather awkward but nonetheless sweet love story, but in real life, who knows how ugly it can get.

Both characters have some severe issues which I won't spell out the specifics. Suffice to say that we all have some personal demons that made us do some stupid or weird things or act in some unhealthy ways. That's why at some level, I can relate to certain scenes or certain dialogue. On the other hand, to put it bluntly, the two main characters in this movie are pretty sick mentally. When I say sick, I didn't mean they are disgusting or anything. I basically meant that they are not healthy.

There's a major problem with this movie: it basically copped out in the end by cheating its way out with a rather cliché ending. But I assume it's the only way out by then, since both characters, though likable, are so damaged to the point that it simply can not be fixed within two hours.

If I had watched this movie few years ago, I would be totally lost. Now after going through some really messed up things and messed up people, I am able to understand the characters in this movie. Trust me, I am sympathetic to the girl though I find her to be a lost case. To our stalker boy, he's an emotional train wreck with criminal potentials. This movie, save the ending, can be a great case study for a shrink.

Though I enjoyed the movie, I have to say that the mind behind this movie is rather disturbed as well. That's probably why she's great too as the female lead. I got a feeling that she playing herself to a great extend.

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.

First time writer and director Marianna Palka chose to chew on a little more than she should have by also starring as the lead actress in this indie movie.

While the topic is courageous and the quirky movie feels sincere, she fails to convey any depth to the two main characters, thus making the central object of "Good Dick", their relationship, highly unbelievable. Viewers will have a hard time relating to these two outcasts, or maintain interest. To top it off, the denouement is artificial and so sudden that it feels cheap. How do they get to that point exactly?

I feel that just splitting the duties of writer and director might have allowed for an effective rewriting that would elevate the story but here, it looks like an unsure director shooting on a rough draft rather than a polished script.

I think Palka is nonetheless promising and one can only hope she will move on from collaborating with her friend Jason Ritter, or at least cast him adequately next time. Palka by herself provided interesting acting and it comes off as an honest effort but better script and a better co-lead would have led to more chemistry and a much more powerful film.

I just finished watching this and I thought it was very good. I watch at least one movie every day and I have to say, this film was very good but not perfect. I'd attribute the 1/10 votes on IMDb to haters only. Almost no film deserves a 1/10 and unfortunately fans will vote 10/10 to counter the bullsh!t 1/10 hater votes.

As for the story, of all the 6 Billion people living on Earth, I think it's quite possible that there are characters and situations such as those depicted in this film. Sorry to those who think it was unrealistic, but I do believe you've been conditioned to expect only certain hackneyed situations and characters in movies. I'd take THIS kind of film/story over the cliché bullsh!t of "guys with guns" that neophyte filmmakers seem intent on propagating.

It was hard to watch at times but it was worth it.

Great soundtrack. Great leads. Great casting. Great writing. Great direction.

I was a little confused by the casting of Tom Arnold. I'm not sure, since his role was so small, what good it does to cast a known celebrity in a film full of unknowns. He kind of stands out like a sore thumb at a time in the story where you really shouldn't be distracting from the storyline.

I'll be looking for more films from this director.

This was a hard movie for me to watch as I felt that Jason Ritter was really wasting his time with this young woman. Sure, he was no doubt physically attracted to her, but wouldn't he have been totally turned off by her negative language and behavior? OK, he was sleeping in his car and needed a much better place to call home. And he may have seen a future with her. But it just seemed to me...wow, how could he have put up with her? As far as movies go, it had some good qualities, but for me a movie has to be more "watchable" than this one. The drab interior of her apartment was supposed to be depressing, of course. But watching this movie on a rainy morning just made me want to turn this movie off and find a happy and uplifting concert on You Tube or talk to a happy person and get on with my life.

Creepy stalker boy meets unfriendly girl. Girl inexplicably lets boy move into her apartment provided he keep his distance and endure her verbal, emotional and sometimes physical abuse. He lives there alternating between pouting, yelling and insulting her. The film is well acted but the setup is not believable and the characters are annoying and unlikeable. The final 5 minutes explain the girl's behavior but too late to make the previous hour and 20 minutes worthwhile.