Good Dick

An unpredictable and darkly funny slice of Americana, where the usual tropes of small-town life – frustrated video store clerk, in love with a shy, awkward yet strangely attractive young girl – do not quite add up to what you’d expect. For one, she has a porn addiction, and meets our hero when checking similarly themed videos out of his store. Eventually, she agrees to try his recommendations and invites him home to share them with her, but, as the tone of what has already gone before may suggest, things do not go as smoothly as he hopes. A love story for the dysfunctional, for our times, and for those who want their romance movies to come with something other than lashings of Meg Ryan looking perplexed in a pair of pyjamas.