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Featuring powerhouse performances from Stephen Graham and Andrea Riseborough, THE GOOD BOY is a razor-sharp psychological thriller. Tommy, a volatile 19-year-old, is abducted after a night of drugs, violence and partying, waking imprisoned in a remote Yorkshire house. What follows is a shocking, unpredictable descent into nightmare, black comedy and family drama.

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A star rating of 3 out of 5.

James Mottram

A delinquent teenager is kidnapped for social rehabilitation in this queasy Yorkshire-set black comedy. Stephen Graham, so good as the father in Netflix series Adolescence, shows another side to his parenting as Chris, a family man fuelled by his own trauma who takes exception to local lout Tommy (Anson Boon). Snatching the lad from the streets, Chris chains him up in the basement of his isolated country pile - also occupied by his ailing wife (Andrea Riseborough) and young son (Kit Rakusen) - where he looks to reform this monster. It's an intriguing set-up, especially as the days roll on and Tommy goes from angry captive to surrogate family member in a twisted take on Stockholm syndrome. Director Jan Komasa keeps the tension bubbling nicely in a story that feels like a latter-day riposte to A Clockwork Orange. The final act doesn't quite pay off, with characters' motives left frustratingly opaque, but the film is blessed with cast-iron performances, especially from Graham and Boon.

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rolenameChrisStephen GrahamKathrynAndrea RiseboroughTommyAnson BoonJonathanKit RakusenRinaMonika FrajczykGabbySavannah SteynLindsayMila JankowskaSteCallum Booth-FordJackNoah ValentineMikeyKhan Manzoor

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Crew

rolenameDirectorJan KomasaWriterBartek BartosikProducerEwa PiaskowskaProducerJerzy SkolimowskiProducerJeremy ThomasComposerAbel KorzeniowskiDirector of photographyMichal DymekEditorAgnieszka GlinskaCastingNina GoldCastingMartin WareProduction designerFletcher Jarvis

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Released on

2026-03-20

Languages

English

Guidance

Violence, swearing, a sex scene, drug abuse

Formats

Colour

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