
They're in their 20s. He works in a video store; he's eager, chatty, sleeps in his car. She rents adult films, looks disheveled, rarely speaks. He chats her up, she brushes him off. He takes her address from store records and contrives to run into her. He rings her doorbell; she tells him to go away. He invents a story of a great-aunt who lives in the building and fakes her death to get the girl to let him in her apartment but holds a butcher knife between them. So it goes an... (Full plot summary below)
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They're in their 20s. He works in a video store; he's eager, chatty, sleeps in his car. She rents adult films, looks disheveled, rarely speaks. He chats her up, she brushes him off. He takes her address from store records and contrives to run into her. He rings her doorbell; she tells him to go away. He invents a story of a great-aunt who lives in the building and fakes her death to get the girl to let him in her apartment but holds a butcher knife between them. So it goes and he is no longer living in his car. He presses for a relationship; she ignores him, insults him, or yells. He's persistent, inviting her to get out of the apartment, cooking, washing her hair. Both have demons and, as their stories become more clear, his addictive personality and her sex nausea may be on a collision course.
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| eFilmCritic.comErik ChildressNearly blindsides us with moments of such genuine thoughtfulness and surprises that wouldn't be out-of-place in a script by Cameron Crowe or Richard Curtis. |
| Screen InternationalDavid D'ArcyMarianne Palka's comedy, which she wrote and stars in, lacks the script, acting and the laughs to rise in the marketplace above similar Sundance-style fare, despite the sado-masochistic streak. |
| Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaAt its best, the film is undeniably tender. Sweet, even. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyOne of the weakest competition entries at Sundance Fest this year, this pseudo romantic-erotic feature promises more than it can deliver, and after a cute beginning falls apart. |
| Los Angeles TimesCarina ChocanoGood Dick carries its messed-up, highly improbable premise so lightly and gracefully that it ultimately comes off as a sweet, plausible and curiously grounded love story -- and touchingly old-fashioned. |
| Shadows on the WallRich ClineThe characters are sharp and their dilemmas feel honest, even if we never get all the information we crave. |
| Financial TimesNigel AndrewsIn spite of a title, and much dialogue, likely to send Aunt Edna into convulsions, Good Dick is the week's best film. |
| ViewLondonMatthew TurnerDelightfully offbeat indie romcom with impressive direction, strong performances and a superbly written script that's by turns creepy, funny, weird and ultimately moving. |
| TeletextVictor OlliverPalka has created two very troubled, comic people who find links through kinks. Takes all sorts. |
| musicOMH.comAnton BitelIf peeking in on these two characters' most deep-seated dysfunctions might seem as intrusive as stalking and as exploitative as scopophilia, then Palka is at pains to expose the all too human yearnings that underlie both activities. |