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The Good Night

  • 20072007
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  • 1h 33m
IMDb RATING
5.7/10
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Danny DeVito, Gwyneth Paltrow, Penélope Cruz, and Martin Freeman in The Good Night (2007)
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A former pop star who now writes commercial jingles for a living, experiences a mid-life crisis.A former pop star who now writes commercial jingles for a living, experiences a mid-life crisis.A former pop star who now writes commercial jingles for a living, experiences a mid-life crisis.
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    • Jake Paltrow
    • Jake Paltrow
  • Stars
    • Martin Freeman
    • Gwyneth Paltrow
    • Penélope Cruz
    • Jake Paltrow
    • Jake Paltrow
  • Stars
    • Martin Freeman
    • Gwyneth Paltrow
    • Penélope Cruz
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    • 45User reviews
    • 48Critic reviews
    • 49Metascore
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    Penélope Cruz in The Good Night (2007)
    Penélope Cruz and Martin Freeman in The Good Night (2007)
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    Martin Freeman
    Martin Freeman
    • Gary Shaller
    Gwyneth Paltrow
    Gwyneth Paltrow
    • Dora Shaller
    Penélope Cruz
    Penélope Cruz
    • Anna…
    Keith Allen
    Keith Allen
    • Norman
    Steffan Boje
    Steffan Boje
    • Karlheinz
    Danny DeVito
    Danny DeVito
    • Mel
    Sonia Doubell
    • Shawna
    Michael Gambon
    Michael Gambon
    • Alan Weigert
    Stephen Graham
    Stephen Graham
    • Victor
    Kate Harper
    Kate Harper
    • Ballet Teacher
    Gael Le Cornec
    Gael Le Cornec
    • The kitchen chef
    Bruno Lastra
    Bruno Lastra
    • Italian Slickster #2
    Martino Lazzeri
    • Italian Slickster #1
    Meredith MacNeill
    Meredith MacNeill
    • Tica
    Simon Pegg
    Simon Pegg
    • Paul
    Amber Sealey
    Amber Sealey
    • Terry
    Skye Bennett
    Skye Bennett
    • Ballerina
    • (as Deva Bennett Skye)
    Joyce Springer
    Joyce Springer
    • Gary's Neighbor
      • Jake Paltrow
      • Jake Paltrow
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    • Trivia
      When they're in the new age bookstore, Paul (Simon Pegg) says to Gary (Martin Freeman), "What are we doing in the hobbit hole?" Martin Freeman played Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit trilogy.
    • Quotes

      Mel: Sometimes I wish that you could just hit the sack and never wake up. If your favorite song never ended, or your best book never closed, if the emotions mustered from these things would just go on and on, who wouldn't want to stay asleep? The guy who discovers that perpetual dream, he's my man.

    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: 21/Chapter 27/Flawless/Stop-Loss/Run Fatboy Run (2008)
    • Soundtracks
      The Universal
      Written by Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James (as Steven Alexander James) & Dave Rowntree

      Performed by The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

      Courtesy of N2K Publishing Ltd.

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    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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    • Release date
      • January 18, 2008 (United Kingdom)
      • United Kingdom
      • Germany
      • United States
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      • Official site (Japan)
      • English
      • Italian
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    • Filming locations
      • Ealing Studios, Ealing, London, England, UK
    • Production companies
      • Good Night Productions
      • Inferno Distribution
      • Destination Films
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    • 1 hour 33 minutes
      • Color
      • Dolby Digital

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