It’s not that Aniston’s Justine is the actress’ most likeable character (that distinction is attributed to her portrayal of Ron Livingstone’s romantic interest in the 1998 film. Office space). Actually, The good girlJustine’s dark, boring and lack of personality shines through in the first part of the film.
Justine and her husband Phil (John C. Reilly) are fantastic on-screen representations of the phrase “peaked in high school.” Phil works as a house painter and spends the rest of his time smoking weed with his equally lazy childhood friend Bubba (Tim Blake Nelson), while Justine buzzes through each workday as a cashier at a retailer large local area. But The good girl takes these mundane, one-dimensional characters and forces an upheaval in their lives that is so real to watch that it’s painful.