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Por um Sentido na Vida

Título original: The Good Girl
  • 2002
  • R
  • 1 h 33 min
AVALIAÇÃO DA IMDb
6,4/10
49 mil
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Jennifer Aniston, John C. Reilly, and Jake Gyllenhaal in Por um Sentido na Vida (2002)
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Comédia de humor negroComédia românticaDramaRomance

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  • Direção
    • Miguel Arteta
  • Roteirista
    • Mike White
  • Artistas
    • Jennifer Aniston
    • Jake Gyllenhaal
    • Deborah Rush
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  • AVALIAÇÃO DA IMDb
    6,4/10
    49 mil
    SUA AVALIAÇÃO
    • Direção
      • Miguel Arteta
    • Roteirista
      • Mike White
    • Artistas
      • Jennifer Aniston
      • Jake Gyllenhaal
      • Deborah Rush
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    • 91Avaliações da crítica
    • 71Metascore
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    Jennifer Aniston
    Jennifer Aniston
    • Justine Last
    Jake Gyllenhaal
    Jake Gyllenhaal
    • Holden Worther
    Deborah Rush
    Deborah Rush
    • Gwen Jackson
    Mike White
    Mike White
    • Corny
    John Carroll Lynch
    John Carroll Lynch
    • Jack Field, Your Store Manager
    Zooey Deschanel
    Zooey Deschanel
    • Cheryl
    John C. Reilly
    John C. Reilly
    • Phil Last
    Tim Blake Nelson
    Tim Blake Nelson
    • Bubba
    Jacquie Barnbrook
    Jacquie Barnbrook
    • Heavy Set Woman
    Annie O'Donnell
    Annie O'Donnell
    • Haggard Woman
    John Doe
    John Doe
    • Mr. Worther
    Roxanne Hart
    Roxanne Hart
    • Mrs. Worther
    Jon Shere
    • Lester
    • (as Jonathan Shere)
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    Alice Amter
    • Big Haired Woman
    Jean Rhodes
    Jean Rhodes
    • Old Woman
    Aimee Garcia
    Aimee Garcia
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    Lalo Guerrero
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    Michael Hyatt
    Michael Hyatt
    • Floberta
    • Direção
      • Miguel Arteta
    • Roteirista
      • Mike White
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    bob the moo

    Downbeat but engaging

    Justine works at a supermarket in a small town and is married to her underachieving painter husband. She feels trapped and unable to deal with the stagnant pool that is her life. When a mysteriously dark young man begins to work at the supermarket she gets involved with him as a way out of her normal life into something more exciting. However things get much more exciting that she expected.

    Rented by my wife as she searched for something in a sort of comedy/drama. As always she has pretty good judgement and better taste than I give her credit for. I had heard reasonable things about this film but I wasn't sure if it would just be another Friends clone comedy. Happily my fears were not realised and this film is actually quite a brave shot at being a character study rather than another one of her hollow rom-coms. The plot looks at an ordinary woman who is living a life that is far below what she thought she wanted. It is not spectacular but it works well on this level. We see her pursue her supposed dream but only getting sucked into other things that she doesn't want for her life. Not all the drama works as well as others and some twists and scenes are a little too much for such a low-key film.

    The film has some laughs in it, but not so many that it hurts the main drama of the film. At times the comedy works well to compliment the main thread but occasionally it is misjudged and threatens to take away from it a bit. The fact that the film is quite down beat and low-key might put some off as it doesn't really set the screen on fire, however what it does do well is develop the character of Justine as you watch the film.

    As such the film does rely on the acting and the majority of it is very good. As much as I dislike her performance in Friends (and thus every repeat she's done in the films), Aniston does very well here and her Justine is as far from her Rachael as is needed. Likewise her character is as far from any life she has ever lived, but she brings it to life and does develop well while still keeping it down to earth and relatable. Reilly and Nelson have good roles that get better as the film goes on and they give good performances. Nelson has the harder job of keeping his character within some sort of relatable reality and he does it well. Gyllenhaal's character is harder to get and is not treated as well by the film, but in essence he is the driver for Justine's journey and is developed well enough to do that. He plays him well and, with Donnie Darko, is in danger of only getting the `weirdo kid' roles.

    Overall this is a good film that is maybe too downbeat and understated to be really called enjoyable. It is good to see a Hollywood star make a film that is driven by her character and she rises to the challenge and gives a performance that, although not earth shattering, is certainly better than all the stuff she's been doing of late.
    Buddy-51

    an offbeat gem

    Jennifer Anniston gives a beautiful, heartfelt performance in `The Good Girl,' a film totally in tune with the rhythms of everyday life. Anniston' Justine Last is just one of the many people inhabiting this Deep South, Bible Belt town who find themselves leading lives of quiet desperation, imprisoned by the dreary sameness of their daily routines. Justine works at one of those generic five-and-dime drug stores that so define the culture of Middle America. Yet, Justine's job and work environment are not the only sources of her frustration. She is also married to a well-meaning but dull blue collar worker who would rather spend the evening sitting on the sofa getting stoned with his partner than engage in any meaningful relationship-building with his wife. At the age of 30 then, Justine is ripe for some kind of life-changing experience when in walks Holden Worther, an introverted, obviously disturbed young co-worker who sees in Justine the very soul mate he has been searching for all his life, a person who will understand him and share his hatred for the life they are both leading.

    `The Good Girl' is really about the contrast between what we would like our lives to be and what they really are. Justine knows that the `easy' choice would be to pull up stakes and simply run away with Holden, abandoning a town, a marriage and a husband she has come lately to both abhor and despise. Yet, something keeps Justine rooted to the spot, something that makes her understand that any decision she makes will end up hurting someone in the end besides herself. Perhaps she sticks around because she realizes that, for all his faults, her husband is, in reality, a pretty decent guy overall and that he really does love her. Perhaps she also realizes that Holden is more mentally disturbed than she is willing to admit and that whatever life she might have with him would only mean exchanging one set of troubles for another. Credit the Mike White screenplay with exploring the complex nature of the film's characters and relationships. We never quite know where the story is headed or how all the issues will get resolved - if at all. As in real life, the story here keeps bumping up against new and ever more challenging complications and, because we can identify with the messiness, we are eager to go along with it wherever it chooses to take us. The film also does a fine job showing how life takes wholly unexpected turns at times, such as when a fairly major character dies unexpectedly. The casual suddenness of the death throws us for a loop since we so rarely see death portrayed that way in the movies.

    Miguel Arteta's deadpan, matter-of-fact directorial style brings out the black comedy richness inherent in the material. Amid all the pain and sadness, there are a surprising number of genuine laughs in the film as we see our own lives reflected in the people and incidents there on the screen. Actually, the film reminds us a bit - in its music, its use of voiceover narration and its unromanticized view of rural life - of Terrance Malick's great 1973 film, `Badlands,' a landmark in independent American filmmaking.

    Anniston, who is probably in every scene in the film, carries the picture with her rich and highly empathetic performance. Even though her character is a woman slowly becoming deadened to the world around her, she still retains that spark of life and that absurd hope for the future that make her worthy to be the centerpiece of an intimate drama such as this one. Jake Gyllenhaal makes Holden both strangely appealing and a little frightening, so that, as Justine does, we come to admire his `uniqueness' of spirit (he has adopted his name from the main character of his favorite book `Catcher in the Rye') yet fear his increasing possessiveness. John C. Reilly as Justine's husband, Phil, and Deborah Rush as Gwen Jackson, Justine's sometime confidante at the store, also provide memorable, telling performances. In fact, there is nothing less than a superb performance in the entire film.

    The question of whether or not Justine is really `a good girl' is, as it should be, left up to the individual viewer to decide. Some may feel she is; others may feel she's not. What really matters, though, is that `The Good Girl' doesn't try to impress us with the slickness that generally defines mainstream commercial filmmaking. Instead it lets its drama unfold in an unforced, believable manner, so that even its moments of greatest absurdity seem somehow strangely real and lifelike. It is a film that, in its own quiet, subtle way, manages to get under your skin - and keeps you thinking for a long time after you leave the theater.
    6evanston_dad

    So-So Dramatic Vehicle for Aniston

    "The Good Girl" was heavily touted as the film that would help Jennifer Aniston break from her Rachel persona and make the leap to dramatic film actress. There was even talk (however brief) about an Academy Award nomination for her when this film came out. Surprise, surprise, but that didn't happen. And where has Aniston's film career been since? "The Good Girl" is leaps and bounds better than any of Aniston's other ventures into film--bland crap like "Picture Perfect" and that other movie whose name I can't even remember--but it's not a great movie in and of itself.

    Aniston does a pretty good job, but you still can't escape the suspicion that she's just playing Jennifer Aniston, albeit a drabbed down version of herself. This movie's greatest asset is its supporting cast, particularly Zooey Deschanel in a very funny, dead pan role as a fellow worker at the Wal-Mart-esquire store Aniston's character works in, and Jake Gyllenhaal, who had begun his trek to stardom the year before in "Donnie Darko." The gods were being kind to Gyllenhaal in 2002, as he got to make out with both Aniston and Catherine Keener ("Lovely and Amazing") in the same year.

    "The Good Girl" is certainly worth watching. It captures that nowheresville feeling of small-town America perfectly, the antithesis of every Frank Capra movie on the same subject. Instead of a cosy town where everyone knows your name, these towns are instead full of bored, restless people sitting around waiting for something, anything, to happen.

    Grade: B-
    7cherold

    thoughtful slice of life

    Years ago I had a conversation with some young guy who worked on the loading docks. He was frustrated by his life, felt inarticulate and incapable of escaping his plight or of really doing anything with his life. He had the wish but not the talent to express himself through art and felt he had nothing to look forward to. I thought of him while watching The Good Girl, a movie about a very ordinary person trapped in a hum drum existence.

    I've noticed some discussion in these reviews as to whether The Good Girl is a comedy or drama, and I would suggest people stop trying to label the movie. The Good Girl clearly isn't trying to be either, but simply a movie that captures the life of someone who feels trapped, portraying both the drama and comedy inherent in life. It's a small, studied, intelligently written movie that's well worth watching. Don't worry about what it is, just watch it and take it the way you take life, not as a comedy or drama but just as what it is.
    MrOvletine

    Love this film

    It's been a while since I've seen this film. My original copy was actually on VHS, so had to wait to find a DVD. I like this movie from the start to the finish. Great characters all the way through which for me is the best part of the movie. Great acting as well. You can actually feel Justine's (Jennifer Aniston) pain at being stuck in a small town with a lousy job and the feeling that life is going nowhere. Lots of quirky turns in this film as well as the story goes along. Fun story with a lot o reality to it. I think it's one of Jennifer's best, but then I pretty much like everything she's in. Great actress.

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    • Curiosidades
      To make Jennifer Aniston look more worn down, director Miguel Arteta made her wear wrist weights for several weeks prior to filming; she also wore them during some of the scenes.
    • Erros de gravação
      In Bubba's bedroom, the Texas Flag is upside down.
    • Citações

      Justine: After living in the dark for so long, a glimpse of the light can make you giddy. Strange thoughts come into your head and you better think'em. Has a special fate been calling you and you not listening? Is there a secret message right in front of you and you're not reading it? Is this your last, best chance? Are you gonna take it? Or are you going to the grave with unlived lives in your veins?

    • Cenas durante ou pós-créditos
      Special thanks to The Arteta Family and The Greenfield Family.
    • Conexões
      Edited into The Good Girl: Deleted Scenes (2003)
    • Trilhas sonoras
      Missed Kiss
      Written by Andrew Gross

      Performed by Andrew Gross & Phil Cordaro

      Courtesy of A Gross Music Co.

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    • Data de lançamento
      • 30 de agosto de 2002 (Estados Unidos da América)
    • Países de origem
      • Estados Unidos da América
      • Alemanha
      • Países Baixos
    • Idioma
      • Inglês
    • Também conhecido como
      • Una buena chica
    • Locações de filme
      • Santa Clarita, Califórnia, EUA
    • Empresas de produção
      • Flan de Coco Films
      • Fox Searchlight Pictures
      • Good Girl LLC
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    • Orçamento
      • US$ 8.000.000 (estimativa)
    • Faturamento bruto nos EUA e Canadá
      • US$ 14.018.296
    • Fim de semana de estreia nos EUA e Canadá
      • US$ 151.642
      • 11 de ago. de 2002
    • Faturamento bruto mundial
      • US$ 16.860.964
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    • Tempo de duração
      • 1 h 33 min(93 min)
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    • Mixagem de som
      • Dolby Digital
    • Proporção
      • 1.85 : 1

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