
Anna and Tom, a married couple living a normal life want to start a family but are struggling financially. Then, just as they are about to lose their apartment, their tenant who had been renting their basement dies and they find a lot of money hidden there. The money belongs to a very dangerous man who naturally wants it back and both Tom and Anna have to decide whether to keep the money and risk their lives or give the money to the cops and start all over again.... (Full plot summary below)
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Anna and Tom, a married couple living a normal life want to start a family but are struggling financially. Then, just as they are about to lose their apartment, their tenant who had been renting their basement dies and they find a lot of money hidden there. The money belongs to a very dangerous man who naturally wants it back and both Tom and Anna have to decide whether to keep the money and risk their lives or give the money to the cops and start all over again.
Leave your thoughts about Good People.
| One Guy's OpinionFrank SwietekAn attempt at a modern noir that works its way to a pretty exciting, if absurd, climax but mostly bides time until then. |
| The Patriot LedgerAl AlexanderIt's barely 80 minutes long, but Genz manages to exhaust every cliche in the thriller genre. But he's just talented enough to make it work. |
| AV ClubMike D'AngeloGood People might have been better titled "Dumb People", or at least "People Who Have Never Seen A Movie In Their Entire Lives." |
| RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyIt could be that Franco and Hudson, while not phoning it in, bring personae that are just too familiar/conventional to spark a high level of viewer involvement. |
| Blu-ray.comBrian OrndorfWeirdness is exactly what Good People needs, providing something diverting to break relentless formula that dries out the excitement that has managed to survive the brutal editorial process. |
| Cinemalogue.comTodd JorgensonThey might be good people, but they make a bad movie in the case of this generic thriller. |
| ReelViewsJames BerardinelliThere's probably enough content here to warrant a three-hour movie but Good People is only 90 minutes long. |
| Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinGood People goes from being simply pedestrian to outright preposterous without batting an eye. |
| Time OutTrevor JohnstonA fairly standard white-people-in-peril thriller. |
| Screen InternationalBrent SimonMindless and mechanical until it suddenly decides to abandon any pretense of sense in a pulpy third act that hints in the faintest fashion at the deranged fun the film could have been ... |