Good Boy (2025)
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A married couple abducts a young delinquent and attempts to rehabilitate him through a series of unconventional methods.
The story
19-year-old Tommy is a foul-mouthed, drug-abusing delinquent who is abducted on the street by an unknown assailant. He is taken to the large countryside home of a man named Chris and his wife, Kathryn. Rina, a woman seeking work as a housekeeper, discovers Tommy chained in the cellar and is forced to stay under threat of deportation. Chris claims he is trying to help Tommy become a better person through education and kindness, despite the reality of Tommy's captivity. As time passes, Tommy begins to form bonds with the family, while the true nature of his situation and the motives behind his abduction remain shrouded in mystery.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Tommy, a delinquent, is abducted and held by Chris and Kathryn in a Yorkshire home. While Rina, a housekeeper, is held there under duress, she watches as Chris uses a mix of kindness and physical discipline to 'rehabilitate' Tommy. Over time, Tommy's demeanor softens, and he forms a bond with the family's son, Jonathan. The tension peaks when Rina's family invades the house; she provides Tommy with the code to his locks before fleeing with them. Later, after Chris believes Tommy is safe, Tommy escapes his restraints and confronts Chris. During the confrontation, Kathryn mistakenly calls him 'Sparkle,' implying he was a replacement for a deceased child. Heartbroken, she allows him to leave. Tommy returns to his life, eventually finding his girlfriend, Gabby. After she expresses a desire to disappear, he sedates her and brings her to the gate of Chris's home, suggesting a cycle of abduction or a shared fate.
- First release year
- 2025
- Runtime (minutes)
- 110
- Production countries
- Poland; United Kingdom
- Original languages
- English
- Directors
- Jan Komasa
- Writers
- Bartek Bartosik · writer; Naqqash Khalid · writer
- Cast and characters
- Stephen Graham · Chris; Andrea Riseborough · Kathryn; Anson Boon · Tommy; Kit Rakusen · Jonathan; Savannah Steyn · Gabby
- Genres
- black comedy; thriller
- Themes
- grief
- Tone and mood
- black comedy; surreal
- Setting
- A large countryside home in Yorkshire.
- Premise and plot tags
- kidnapping; rehabilitation
- Source material / true-story basis
- A screenplay originally written in Polish and set in Warsaw.
- Reception
- The film received generally favorable reviews, with critics praising the performances and the unique premise, though some noted the ending felt disconnected from the first half.
- Reported review scores
- Metacritic · score: 63 · scale: 100 · review count: 18
- Production trivia
- The screenplay was adapted from a Polish script set in Warsaw.; It is Jan Komasa's first English-language film.; The picnic scene was the only time the entire principal cast filmed together outside.
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