Good Boy

2025

Action / Crime / Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller

17
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 81% · 188 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 81% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.8/10 10 9355 9.4K

kidnapping paranoid family life toxic relationship toxic family dramatic

Plot summary

Tommy, a volatile 19-year-old, 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 could possibly expect.

Director

Jan Komasa Photo
Jan Komasa

Top cast

Savannah Steyn Photo
Savannah Steyn as Gabby
Stephen Graham Photo
Stephen Graham as Chris
Andrea Riseborough Photo
Andrea Riseborough as Kathryn
Kit Rakusen Photo
Kit Rakusen as Jonathan
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CinemaSerf 7 / 10

“Tommy” (Anson Boon) is an odious cretin of

“Tommy” (Anson Boon) is an odious cretin of a teenager who bullies, boozes and snorts his way through life until one night he finds himself all alone and somewhat the worse for wear. Next morning, we meet “Rina” (Monika Frajczyk) who has arrived at a remote country house where she is rather perfunctorily interviewed for a cleaning job by “Christopher” (Stephen Graham). On her subsequent tour of their home she is introduced to his borderline catatonic wife “Catherine” (Andrea Riseborough) and their son “Jonathan” (Kit Rakusen) before being taken downstairs to the basement and encountering a lad who is chained to the wall. Yep, that’s our “Tommy” - just as foul mouthed and threatening as before, only now he’s a bit more sober. Oddly enough, that doesn’t scare off “Rina” and so we know that she must have problems of her own as we now follow quite a menacingly bizarre process of what could be called rehabilitation for the angry young man, and possibly for others too. What I did enjoy here was the powerfully charismatic effort from a Boon who genuinely came across as obnoxious as we start out but who becomes someone altogether more shrewd as the dynamics in the house change in a series of quite unexpected ways. Just watch his eyes! Riseborough is also on solid form as her persona deceives effectively and with about half an hour left it’s fairly safe to say that I hadn’t really much of a clue what was going to happen to whom at the end. Stockholm syndrome maybe? Faux-Stockholm syndrome maybe? Watch and see, it’s worth it and I expect to see a lot more of Anson Boon.
Reviewed by 8 / 10

Purposeful.

An interesting delivery of a corporal rehabilitation story that purposefully sprinkles a bunch of incomplete details.Who is Charlie. We never explicitly are told. Is he a lost elder child of the family?How was he lost? We see scratched grafitti on the desk, which we're told is second hand.Chris tells us honestly no one else was ever tied up in that room.Both parents watch Tommy watch the videos he's posted of his abuse of others. Was one of his victims their son and lost to the fall out of Tommy's abuse. Ie you took our son, now you replace him? It's never answered but it is definitely purposefully outlined, and purposefully left unanswered so it was a story point not to tell us but to let us guess so our incomplete story feeling is meant to be like that, we're meant to be left to fill in thegaps ourselves and it doesn't really matter how we do it.Ther applying of the wig was another detail that was supposed to mean something yet we're not given the details to finish the thought.And the girls family saying "I'm here to take my Lump". What ever that means. Never addresssed or explained.Director Jan Komasa has included multiple examples of this in the film so it's meant to be like that and it does force the view to think, to try and answer these questions and interpret meanings themselves.It's an interesting technique, which doesn't necessarily work perfectly, but doesn't necessarily distract from the experience enough to damage it either. We're used to stories spelled out for us and then summed up at the end, so it's interesting to see a story play with us a little. We're set up to believe that chris is a dodgy serial type guy applying his toupe, and keeping people in his basement, but, that's not the case, That Kathryn is a sickly domineering heartless damaged figure, but that's not the case, That Jonathan is a damaged kid held prisioner by deranged parents, but again, not the case, so the movie plays with us.Things aren't clear and there isn't always an easy answer.
Reviewed by 8 / 10

One of better films I've seen in a while

What started out as a possibly horror type film progressed into something kind of beautiful in its own twisted way. Anything with Stephen graham is worth seeing in my opinion and Heel did not disappoint. In a dysfunctional way a lost young man finds family and love and purpose. Tommy whose life seems to be going from one club to another on a drug fueled date with destiny is kidnapped. He is chained up in a basement where he is taken in by a family whose is equally dysfunctional. Looking for a son who they lost at some point Tommy is chained up and as he acclimates to "family life" he is allowed to move around the home and outside but not freely. As the movie progresses and Tommy finds a sense of belonging you see him start to change. He is trying to run but somewhere in his heart he knows he should stay . His captors are the only ones who really ever loved him which is the really screwed up part. The writers and director did a phenomenal job of showing this clash of feelings and while you feel this sense of dread for Tommy you also know he somehow belongs with his captors family and their son. There's something sweet about them in their twisted way to reform him from someone on substances to someone of substance. By the final act you almost know that Tommy will escape, but will he stay gone ? The film has this redeeming quality where in its demented own way it is what so many young people probably hope for and want who are lost in the world and doing drugs all the time to cope with their loneliness or trauma. What many lost people who may be addicted or alone need and that is a safe place to be around good role models and a solid family foundation. Maybe even a place to just decompress and get off all the substances they used for so long to hide themselves inside that isn't your typical cookie cutter rehab. I think that is the true message of the film. Family isn't always found in one's own blood but sometimes with a family who kidnapped them and taught them what it is to be loved and accepted lol. Saying that statement is crazy, but that is what the movie will make you think and maybe even feel and that is the genius behind the film and what makes it work so well. I truly was moved by what the film makers message was and the way it was delivered in a strange and twisted way that made it unique. The acting was absolutely superb and this British drama was as good a movie that I've seen in a while. Highly recommend to people with an open mind and who like movies that make you think.
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