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.
Dysfunction beguiles in Good Dick, a perverse romantic comedy whose coarse title belies its tender heart.
– Jeannette Catsoulis,
New York Times,
17 Oct 2008
rotten:
As irritatingly monosyllabic as its characters, this indie 'romance' -- the quote marks aren't an accident -- feels over-workshopped and false at almost every point.
– Joe Neumaier,
New York Daily News,
17 Oct 2008
fresh:
A short and sweet anti-romantic comedy, Good Dick puts together a heav ily depressed young woman with a homeless clerk who rents her porn at a Los Angeles video store.
– Lou Lumenick,
New York Post,
17 Oct 2008
rotten:
Alternately compelling and dramatically limp, the film scores points for exploring unfamiliar territory but lacks the emotional depth to make some very strange behavior believable.
– James Greenberg,
Hollywood Reporter,
18 Oct 2008
rotten:
Surely some of the young woman's porn videos would make better viewing.