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The Goodbye Girl
Musical dancer on the way out (at 36) Paula McFadden had it swell with actor Tony DeSanti, but instead of taking her to Hollywood he gets a European movie part. He even sublets their (his) New York apartment to Elliot Garfield, who generously lets her stay, even keeping the master bedroom. Pragmatic pre-teen daughter Lucy soon takes to his charm, but Paula remains determined to hate all actors. Despite the stress of a Broadway Shakespeare lead he must play too queer for Frisco, he's determined to snatch romance from ingratitude.
| Release : | 2004 |
| Rating : | 6 |
| Studio : | Turner Network Television, Warner Bros. Television, |
| Crew : | Art Direction, Production Design, |
| Cast : | Jeff Daniels Patricia Heaton Hallie Eisenberg Lynda Boyd Alan Cumming |
| Genre : | Comedy Romance TV Movie |
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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
Purely Joyful Movie!
A Disappointing Continuation
Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.
Maybe my critical eye is not all that it might be or I'm just very generous in my appreciation of films.Either way I have thoroughly enjoyed the 2004 made-for-TV version of Simon's brilliant play.I watched the original on satellite TV and a week later tuned in again,thinking it was the same version, not knowing of the re-make.As it dawned on me,I realised that it was the plot,setting,writing etc which appealed to me more than the acting performances.Jeff and Patricia are fine in the roles, as were Richard and Marsha before them.I see no reason to condemn this re-make and I've no doubt the next version of "The Goodbye Girl" will be just as good as these two.It's a great poignant comedy with wonderful one-liners.
The 2004 remake of the 1977 version of the goodbye girl was in the least to say awful. Beside from the fact that the actors did not fit the roles very well, everything else was exactly the same. The camera angles along with the words spoken by the characters. It was like the people who decided to redo the movie didn't have enough brains to spice it up a little bit. The character of Paula got annoying as she cried through practically the whole movie. There were some funny moments in the movie and the fact that Jeff Daniels spoke much slower and clearly than Richard Dreyfus. The movie was in the least to say not very good and I would not recommend it to serious movie fans. I give this movie two out of five stars.
I didn't like this movie. I think it was stupid, boring and unrealistic. The whole movie had a bad plot and a bad ending. There was no humor in the movie. There didn't seem to be any chemistry between the two of them. And so I don't think the acting worked for the movie. It was unrealistic because in the real world, if a single woman with a child had a man come to live with her that she didn't know, i don't think that she would let him in. They didn't know each other for that long, and every minute they were even near each other they were fighting or weren't together or talking. It doesn't seem like they would be able to fall in love that quickly.
I found this movie to be both unrealistic and unfunny. Patricia Heaton and Jeff Daniels made for one of the worst couples I've ever seen in a movie. There was poor chemistry between the two. I thought that the idea of these two people falling in love with each other was funnier then the film itself. Having said that, the lone highlight of the film is Hallie Kate Eisenberg as the young Lucy McFadden. She was the funniest aspect of this film. I also found Alan Cumming as the play director to be quite humorous. But the few laughs I had while watching this would not be enough to recommend this to anyone. This movie should not be meant for anything other than a bad Lifetime movie.
