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The GoodTimesKid

Play trailer Poster for The GoodTimesKid 2005,  1h 17m,  Action/ Comedy Play Trailer Watchlist
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78% Tomatometer 9 Reviews 58% Popcornmeter 100+ Ratings
Rodolfo gets a summons from the Army to report for duty, however, he did not enlist. He travels to a recruitment office to try and straighten out the mess, then ends up meeting another recruit named Punk, a journalist who joined the Army to get away from his life and girlfriend, Diaz. Brooding Rodolfo befriends her, but he knows something she doesn't know: Punk leaves in the morning to go into the Army.
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Ty Burr Boston Globe Apr 26, 2007
Very rough, very funny, with sensibilities derived equally from Chaplin, Jim Jarmusch, and the Gang of Four. Go to Full Review
Ed Gonzalez Slant Magazine Jan 18, 2007
Jacobs Jr. gives us a film perched somewhere between the realistic solipsism of Mutual Attraction and the insufferable quirk of Garden State. Go to Full Review
Matt Zoller Seitz New York Times Jan 17, 2007
4/5
Azazel Jacobss unexpectedly beguiling romantic comedy, The GoodTimesKid, finds poetry in wordless scenes of observation. Go to Full Review
David Cornelius DVDTalk.com Sep 11, 2009
4/5
The film says so much while saying so little, and it leaves us smiling over its silent wonders. Go to Full Review
Karina Longworth SpoutBlog Sep 3, 2009
Photographed with a shabby romanticism. Go to Full Review
Maitland McDonagh TV Guide Jan 17, 2007
2.5/4
Writer-director Azazel Jacob's bittersweet, wistfully minimalist comedy charts a day and a half in the lives of two restless, unhappy men -- both named Rodolfo Cano -- and the woman who finds herself trapped in the mesh of their discontents. Go to Full Review
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Cast & Crew

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Azazel Jacobs

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Sara Diaz

Diaz

Gerardo Naranjo

Rodolfo

Azazel Jacobs

Punk Rodolfo

Brian O'Keeffe

Party

Pat Reynolds

Neighbor

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Synopsis Rodolfo gets a summons from the Army to report for duty, however, he did not enlist. He travels to a recruitment office to try and straighten out the mess, then ends up meeting another recruit named Punk, a journalist who joined the Army to get away from his life and girlfriend, Diaz. Brooding Rodolfo befriends her, but he knows something she doesn't know: Punk leaves in the morning to go into the Army.
Director
Azazel Jacobs
Producer
Sara Diaz, Ernesto Garabito, Georgina Garcia Riedel
Screenwriter
Azazel Jacobs, Gerardo Naranjo
Production Co
Crooked Teeth Productions
Genre
Action, Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Feb 10, 2021
Runtime
1h 17m
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