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movie review - Girlfriend's Day

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2017.02.18

There's a variant of the film noir where the detective is accidental. So it is with "Girlfriend's Day", in which a has-been greeting card writer is drawn into a murder mystery and thrown in with the criminal underworld. This thing has good pacing and an even tone and good characters. It's only an hour long, a made-for-TV sort of thing (the term now basically being meaningless).

Recommended.

rand()m quote

If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it. A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

—Roald Dahl