Movies: Lost Souls

Jennifer Aniston gets serious in The Good Girl

Attention, shoppers! your store manager's special today is chronic depression. We are offering rock-bottom prices on every variety of human misery--alienation, anomie, suppressed anger, sexual restlessness.

Poor Justine Last (Jennifer Aniston). When she gets home from clerking at Retail Rodeo, her life is even more awful. Her husband (John C. Reilly) is a house painter with a disastrous sperm count. Mostly he sits around stoned, watching inane TV. No wonder Justine starts making eyes at Holden (Jake Gyllenhaal), the cute new guy at work. He has borrowed his name from The Catcher in the Rye, but his soulful air masks...

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