Marianna Palka

A troubled young woman spends her days watching porn in her claustrophobic apartment. An eccentric young man spends his days serving her in a video store. The harder he tries to give himself to her the more she pushes him away.

Good Dick -- GOOD DICK is a modern love story set in Los Angeles about a lonely girl who is drawn from her strange hermitic life by a persistent video store clerk who is determined to make her fall in love with him.

"Good Dick" is an unusual fairy tale about a troubled, solitary young woman and the persistent video clerk who draws her out of her claustrophobic world by pursuing a courtship with her. As they become closer, her sexual antipathy is met with his unflinching optimism, until finally her aggressive defenses overwhelm them both. Profoundly affected by his presence in her life, she finds the courage to face her past.Writer, director and lead Marianna Palka has an uncanny knack for understanding the complex give and take of human interaction and the sometimes painful motivations behind them. She has made a raw, joyously unpredictable feature debut touched with sly humor, tender hope and as much upfront honesty as its title implies, "Good Dick."

Habitually isolated in her quiet apartment, a vulnerable girl (Marianna Palka) with a penchant for soft-core porn ventures out to a local video store, where she meets a store clerk (Jason Ritter) who vows to break down her emotional walls and win her affections. But as he pursues her in bizarre fashion, it's clear that their budding relationship will be anything but conventional. Lead actress and screenwriter Palka makes her directorial debut.

GOOD DICK is a modern love story set in Los Angeles about a lonely girl who is drawn from her strange hermitic life by a persistent video store clerk who is determined to make her fall in love with him.

GOOD DICK is a modern love story set in Los Angeles about a lonely girl who is drawn from her strange hermitic life by a persistent video store clerk who is determined to make her fall in love with him.

GOOD DICK is an unusual fairy tale about a troubled, solitary young woman and the persistent video clerk who draws her out of her claustrophobic world by pursuing a courtship with her. As they become closer, her sexual antipathy is met with his unflinching optimism, until finally her aggressive defenses overwhelm them both. Profoundly affected by his presence in her life, she finds the courage to face her past. Writer, director and lead Marianna Palka has an uncanny knack for understanding the complex give and take of human interaction and the sometimes painful motivations behind them. She has made a raw, joyously unpredictable feature debut touched with sly humor, tender hope and as much upfront honesty as its title implies, GOOD DICK.

A troubled young woman spends her days watching porn in her claustrophobic apartment. An eccentric young man spends his days serving her in a video store. The harder he tries to give himself to her the more she pushes him away.