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The Good Girl
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The Good Girl is a 2002 film from the Chuck & Buck team, with director Miguel Arteta and writer Mike White.
Contents
- 1 Plot
- 2 Inspiration
- 3 Cast
- 4 External links
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Plot
Justine Last (Aniston) faces a boring routine life working at the Retail Rodeo discount store and married to her pot-smoking husband (Reilly) until she meets fellow worker Thomas Worther (Gyllenhaal), who calls himself "Holden" after Holden Caulfield, the narrator of his favorite novel, The Catcher in the Rye. The two become friends and spark an affair that brings fleeting comfort for Justine as much as it threatens to ruin her marriage and reputation. As the affair heats into an obsession, Justine must decide whether to keep the life she has or leave it behind.
Inspiration
The story is a modern reworking of Flaubert's
Madame Bovary.
[citation needed]
The film derives inspiration and source material from
The Sorrows of Young Werther, a loosely autobiographical novel by
Johann Wolfgang Goethe about a suicide and
unrequited love.
[citation needed] This is especially notable due to Thomas's last name, "Worther".
Cast
