The Good Night

2007

Action / Comedy / Drama / Fantasy / Music / Romance

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 33% · 43 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 33% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.7/10 10 8875 8.9K

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Plot summary

Gary, a musician, is trapped in an unhappy relationship with his live-in lover, Dora. He becomes enthralled with a beautiful seductress who enters his dreams, and tries to control his dream-state so he can spend more and more time with her. When Gary sees his mystery woman's face on a bus billboard, he discovers she is real, and fate brings him an opportunity to meet her.

Director

Jake Paltrow Photo
Jake Paltrow

Top cast

Lucy DeVito Photo
Lucy DeVito as (uncredited)
Penélope Cruz Photo
Penélope Cruz as Anna / Melodia
Gwyneth Paltrow Photo
Gwyneth Paltrow as Dora Shaller
Martin Freeman Photo
Martin Freeman as Gary Shaller
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855.91 MB
1280*714
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 33 min
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1.72 GB
1920*1072
English 5.1
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23.976 fps
1 hr 33 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by jaybob 6 / 10

Nice cast , nice sets BUT as a movie it is DULL

Reviewed by cody-shepherd 6 / 10

Not bad, but victim to a classic blunder

Making a movie about dreams or dreaming is tough, and it shows in this one. The difficulty with dreams in any bit of fiction is that they can't be held accountable; that is, by definition, there isn't any kind of direct correspondence between dream occurrences and narrative significance. A dream (singular) here and there can enrich a narrative with symbolism, causality, subconscious, but when the dream becomes plural then almost universally a story starts to break down. Having gritted my teeth through movies like Waking Life and The Cell, to name a few, I've come to associate "dream" with "lazy" in cinema.That being said, I had to see what Simon Pegg and Martin Freeman would do in a movie together. And the bottom line is, due to these two guys, the movie is worth a watch. Don't may more than $4 to see it.What you get really is a movie without consequences. You have Martin Freeman obsessed with a dream character. OK, kind of interesting, but there's not enough dimension to his girlfriend (Paltrow), who just seems like a nag, or his friend/former bandmate (Pegg), who, granted, is extremely funny but ultimately without Pathos, to really make his dream obsession a truly engrossing psychological/sociological study.And again, what happens here is that the dream sequences, and even the obsession with them, because of the, by definition, incommensurable quality of dreams, their inability to be authentically expressed through proxy (language, film, journals, etc.), leave us as audience members bereft of any feeling of causality, arc, or direction.Also, as a sidenote, the pseudo-documentary format that the film opens with and halfheartedly maintains is confusing and ultimately misdirecting. It ends up looking like the mistake of a novice director.Martin Freeman performs his lines well, Pegg is funny, DeVito is a pleasing eccentric, and Paltrow isn't as annoying as she usually is (however Cruz is somewhat intolerable), so the movie is worth seeing once, if you've got nothing better to do.
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