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SLEEPYTIME GAL Penélope Cruz is the girl of Martin Freeman's dreams — literally — in Jake Paltrow's The Good Night
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Limited Release: Oct 05, 2007; Rated: R; Length: 93 Minutes; Genres: Comedy, Romance; With: Penélope Cruz, Martin Freeman and Gwyneth Paltrow
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Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum is a film critic for EW
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.
Posted Oct 03, 2007
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- DVD Review The Good Night (Apr 01, 2008) | Kerrie Mitchell
- Movie Commentary Parents' Guide to Movies (1999) | Lois Alter Mark
- Movie News The Next Files: Rebecca Hall (Aug 29, 2008) | Gregory Kirschling
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- Movie News 2008's slim Oscar-pickings (Jul 18, 2008) | Dave Karger
- DVD Review Chungking Express: Criterion Collection (Nov 25, 2008) | Aubry D'Arminio
