The Goodbye Girl (TV Movie 2004)

The Goodbye Girl: Directed by Richard Benjamin. With Jeff Daniels, Patricia Heaton, Hallie Eisenberg, Lynda Boyd. Musical dancer on the way out (at 36) Paula McFadden had it swell with actor Tony DeSanti, but instead of taking her to Hollywood he gets a European movie part. He even sublets their (his) New York apartment to Elliot Garfield, who generously lets her stay, even keeping the master bedroom. Pragmatic pre-teen daughter Lucy soon takes to his charm, but Paula remains determined to hate all actors. Despite the stress of a Broadway Shakespeare lead he must play too queer for Frisco, he’s determined to snatch romance from ingratitude.

“What got me to watch this movie in the first place was seeing Patricia Heaton in something other than Everybody Loves Raymond and to see Jeff Daniels in something a little more serious than Dumb and Dumber.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI wonu0026#39;t give away any of the plot, but I will say that the movie was entertaining. Although the speed at which emotions changed back and forth was a little too quick to be believable. Some people also might be turned off by the overly mature NYC 10 year old daughter who at times seems to be more of a sister then a daughter to Heatonu0026#39;s character.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIt was a nice film to end the day with.”