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The Good Night

Official Selection - Competition 2007 / The Good Night / USA, United Kingdom 2007

The dull life of a composer of commercial jingles dramatically changes course when he meets the girl of his dreams. Literally, since the stunningly beautiful Anna appears to Gary only in his sleep. Martin Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow and Danny DeVito star in this enchanting comedy about what happens when you encounter the embodiment of perfection.

The Good Night The Good Night

Synopsis

The once reasonably popular singer Gary (Martin Freeman, familiar from the films Confetti or Love Actually) now makes a living writing commercial jingles. He’s on the verge of a mid-life crisis and his relationship with the eternally dissatisfied intellectual Dora (Gwyneth Paltrow) is on the dull side. His life takes a dramatic turn when he meets the kind of girl every man dreams about. But that’s his problem: the stunningly beautiful Anna (Penelope Cruz) only appears to him when he’s asleep. He soon forms a relationship with this perfect dream-woman, and his days are spent in mere preparation for his fantastic nocturnal encounters. In order to step up their intensity, exhausted but happy Gary seeks out oddball Mel (Danny DeVito), an expert in lucid dreaming, who initiates him into the rules of an exciting but dangerous game. An enchanting comedy about what happens when you meet the embodiment of perfection; after ninety minutes in this dream world, you won’t want to get out of your seat.

About the film

90 min / Color, 35 mm
International premiere

Director Jake Paltrow / Screenplay Jake Paltrow / Dir. of Photography Giles Nuttgens / Music Alec Puro / Editor Rick Lawley / Producer Donna Gigliotti, William J. Johnson / Production Good Night Productions Ltd. / Cast Martin Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Penelope Cruz, Danny DeVito, Simon Pegg / Contact Inferno Distribution, Bontonfilm, a.s. / Distributor Bontonfilm, a.s.
www: www.infernodistribution.com

About the director

Jake Paltrow

Jake Paltrow (b. 1975, Los Angeles) began working in film as a set production assistant on the television series Homicide: Life on the Street and on Paul Thomas Anderson’s debut Sydney / Hard Eight. In 1996 the Sundance festival screened his short debut An Eviction Notice, which he also wrote. He filmed several episodes of the popular TV series NYPD Blue. Paltrow also wrote the original screenplay for The Modern Machine and the screen adaptations of the novels Survivor and The Secret History. The Good Night, his first feature film, was shown to critical acclaim at this year’s Sundance festival.

Contacts

Inferno Distribution
9595 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 900, 90212, Beverly Hills
United States of America
Phone: +1 323 848 8973
Fax: +1 323 848 8963

Bontonfilm, a.s.
Na Poříčí 1047/26, 110 00, Praha 1
Czech Republic
Phone: +420 257 415 111
E-mail: [email protected]

Guests

Aleš Danielis
Distributor

Marek Jeníček
Distributor, Producer

Jake Paltrow
Film Director

Přemysl Martinek
Film Institution Rep., Producer

Danny DeVito
Actor

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