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Good Dick

Good Dick

Comedy · Drama · Romance · 2008

A fidgety, wisecracking video store clerk develops a fixation on a particularly reclusive customer, a frequent visitor to the pornography section of Cinefile, the video store where he works in Los Angeles. After multiple failures to impress her during their brief daily transactions, he finds her street address in the store's database, drives to her apartment building and initiates an unconventional campaign to win her affections.

Movie details

Good Dick

“A hard man... is good to find.”

2008 Comedy · Drama · Romance 1h 26m

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TMDB

5.9 / 10

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A fidgety, wisecracking video store clerk develops a fixation on a particularly reclusive customer, a frequent visitor to the pornography section of Cinefile, the video store where he works in Los Angeles. After multiple failures to impress her during their brief daily transactions, he finds her street address in the store's database, drives to her apartment building and initiates an unconventional campaign to win her affections.

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Marianna Palka

Marianna Palka

Marianna Palka

The Woman

Jason Ritter

Jason Ritter

The Man

Eric Edelstein

Eric Edelstein

Eric

Mark Webber

Mark Webber

Derek

Martin Starr

Martin Starr

Simon

Tom Arnold

Tom Arnold

Dad

Jesse Garcia

Jesse Garcia

Jose

Court is in session

Put Good Dick on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Sentimental Softie

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.