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The Good Night (2007)

Reviewed by Lisa Schwarzbaum | Oct 03, 2007

Lisa Schwarzbaum

Lisa Schwarzbaum is a film critic for EW

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EW's GRADE

B-

Details Limited Release: Oct 05, 2007; Rated: R; Length: 93 Minutes; Genres: Comedy, Romance; With: Penélope Cruz, Martin Freeman and Gwyneth Paltrow

$SLEEPYTIME GAL Penélope Cruz is harried Martin Freeman\'s dream lover in director Jake Paltrow\'s The Good Night | The Good Night$

SLEEPYTIME GAL Penélope Cruz is harried Martin Freeman's dream lover in director Jake Paltrow's The Good Night

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Martin Freeman, from the BBC's The Office, has just the right semi-stunned mug to play a guy sliding into work-and-love loserdom who finds solace from his undermining girlfriend with a dream woman he encounters in his sleep. The Good Night doesn't quite comfortably synthesize all the notions writer-director Jake Paltrow wants to play with in his feature debut. But the filmmaker's got good taste — and luck — in casting. Sister Gwyneth gets therapeutically hard-ass in the dark-haired role of the bad GF, while Penélope Cruz coos and smolders appropriately as the fantasy femme.

Originally posted Oct 03, 2007 Published in issue #958 Oct 12, 2007 Order article reprints

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