Audience applause following Friday's debut screening of "Good Dick," a quirky romantic comedy written and directed by Marianna Palka, was muted at best. The film stars Jason Ritter as a video-store clerk who strikes up an unorthodox relationship with a shy, damaged female customer (Palka, again) who rents only porn.
"I wrote it so that I could star in it," said the Scotland-born Palka, whose character watches porn videos with Ritter's character but won't let him touch her. "I wanted to write something that was an original love story and that showed sex in a new way."
She certainly accomplished that. Whether audiences will embrace her film is another matter.
-- Brandon Griggs