The Good Night (2007)
Genre: Drama / Comedy
Duration: 93 minuten
Country:
United States / United Kingdom / Germany
Directed by: Jake Paltrow
Stars: Martin Freeman, Penélope Cruz and Danny DeVito
IMDb score:
5,7 (8.884)
Releasedate: 25 January 2007
The Good Night plot
"Dreaming is believing."
Gary (Martin Freeman), a pop artist who once lived in more highly regarded circles, wastes his time composing radio jingles and ends up in a midlife crisis. His wife Dora (Gwyneth Paltrow) is not really a support for him and they grow apart. Then one day he runs into Anna (Penélope Cruz), who literally turns out to be the woman of his dreams.
Actors and actresses
Gary Shaller
Dora Epstein
Anna / Melodia
Paul
Mel
Terry
Shawna
Karlheinz
Alan Weigert
Victor
Reviews & comments
K. V.
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- 4376 messages
- 3777 votes
I also ventured into it and it was not wrong and that is a bit said with it. A top cast (Martin Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Penélope Cruz and Danny DeVito), but it didn't really splash and crackle on the screen.
Not a standard story, but certainly not bad, but not wow either. I thought the ending suited the story.
I wasn't immediately blown away, but I didn't find it sleep-inducing either. The box said romantic comedy, but I didn't find this directly applicable, I thought it was more of a feature film.
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Roger Thornhill
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- 6076 messages
- 2478 votes
An intriguing premise and a great cast, but the film doesn't really go anywhere halfway through, and the final outcome is very predictable and the morale fairly good. Fortunately, Simon Pegg is very nice as a jerk, and Danny DeVito is surprisingly moving as a apparent charlatan with a small heart and a sad disposition, so that in the end I just kept watching quite fascinated (no lame jokes about soporific etc. .).
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ZAP!
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- 5502 messages
- 3638 votes
They should have put more effort into this, because there were certainly intriguing and nice pieces. Sometimes I thought of 'LA Story' and sometimes 'Being John Malkovich', but I don't want to raise any false expectations!
Worth the effort for the Cruz completeists anyway. Paltrow is again borderline annoying (not totally bad either; actually I only found her perfect in 'Se7en'), Pegg & Freeman do something fun together again and DeVito almost always does well, this role could have been much more, just like so the whole movie.
-edit- and then I forget Gambon, who also seems to have been forgotten by the makers; can be seen briefly in the beginning, I suspect the rest has been cut out?
1.5* and still glad I saw it, strange but true.
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