The Good Night (2007)

Directed by

Jake Paltrow

Genre

drama film, fantasy film, musical film, romantic comedy

Country

United Kingdom, United States

Runtime

1h 33m

Rated

R

Rating

5.3 of 10 from 143 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A former pop star now writes jingles in London. He is unhappy with his life and begins having vivid dreams that feel more real than his waking hours. The story follows him between his mundane reality and these fantasy dream sequences.

whimsicalmelancholicdreamyromanticslightly absurdslow-pacedreflectivetonally mixed

What happens

The Good Night is a 2007 fantasy comedy-drama film written and directed by Jake Paltrow. The film stars his sister Gwyneth Paltrow, Penélope Cruz, Martin Freeman, Danny DeVito, Simon Pegg and others. The movie takes place in London and New York City, where former pop star Gary Shaller, who now writes commercial jingles for a living, experiences a mid-life crisis. The movie was released on the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, later had a limited theatrical release, and was a box office bomb. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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