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The Good Girl (2002)

★ 6.2 · 676 ratings on TMDB

It's her last best chance... is she going to take it?

The Good Girl poster★ 6.2

A discount store clerk strikes up an affair with a stock boy who considers himself the incarnation of Holden Caulfield.

DirectorMiguel Arteta
CastDeborah Rush, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jennifer Aniston, John C. Reilly, John Carroll Lynch, John Doe
GenresComedy, Drama, Romance
The emergence reading

The Good Girl keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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