Good Boy (2025)
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- Synopsis:
- Featuring powerhouse performances from Stephen Graham and Andrea Riseborough, 'Good Boy' is a razor-sharp psychological thriller that will keep you guessing until the final frame. The film follows Tommy, a volatile 19-year-old who revels in drugs, parties and violence. After getting separated from his friends on a drunken bender, he is abducted by a shadowy figure. He wakes to find himself imprisoned in the basement of a remote Yorkshire house, inhabited by a very strange family. But what unfolds is not what he - or the audience - could possibly expect.
- Actors:
- Stephen Graham, Andrea Riseborough, Anson Boon, Kit Rakusen, Monika Frajczyk, Savannah Steyn, Mila Jankowska, Callum Booth-Ford, Noah Valentine, Noah Manzoor, Maciej Stepniak, Jessica Johnson, Austin Haynes, Helena Calvert, Jessica Polak, Katarzyna Adamczyk, Bazyli Mach, Adam Bilewicz, Hanna Koczewska, Agata Zataj
- Directors:
- Jan Komasa
- Producers:
- Matthew Baker, Aleksandra Bielska, Caroline Cooper Charles, Naomi Despres, Zbigniew Domagalski, Ivan Kelava, Michèle Marshall, Nick O'Hagan, Ewa Piaskowska, Lukasz Poninski, Kevin Proctor
- Writers:
- Bartek Bartosik, Naqqash Khalid
- Aka:
- The Good Boy
- Genres:
- Comedy, Drama, Horror, Thrillers
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Reviews (1) of Good Boy
Destroy What Destroys You - Good Boy review by griggs
From the synopsis, you know you’re in Kubrick country. Good Boy dares you not to think of A Clockwork Orange, yet still feels like its own thing, darkly comic in places. Stephen Graham leans into it with huge glasses, safari shirt and uncanny wig, like a youth worker bingeing late-night telly.
What really works is how slippery the power dynamic is. Andrea Riseborough gives the film its heart, playing someone who’s both victim and potential avenger, while Anson Boon completes the trio, more fragile and feral than you first assume. The film keeps you asking who’s more damaged, and how much of it is rehabilitation, grooming, or a very elaborate act of payback.
Tonally it wobbles now and then, and one element is frustratingly left hanging, but the unease sticks. The revenge angle is never as clean as you expect, which is exactly the point. You come away feeling like you’ve watched something properly twisted rather than just another “psycho of the week” drama.