An aged philanthropist reunites with the pregnant daughter of his close friends who tragically died in an accident that he feels responsible for causing. His inner demons have driven him to abuse drugs which causes the reunion to become strained between the daughter and her husband. His story is told through flashbacks to the day of the tragic accident.... (Full plot summary below)
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An aged philanthropist reunites with the pregnant daughter of his close friends who tragically died in an accident that he feels responsible for causing. His inner demons have driven him to abuse drugs which causes the reunion to become strained between the daughter and her husband. His story is told through flashbacks to the day of the tragic accident.
Leave your thoughts about The Benefactor.
| Film Journal InternationalChris BarsantiAn off-kilter film that leaves too many promising elements behind to make room for more capering and raging from Gere. |
| Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyGere, an actor capable of great nuance, hams it up so mightily you’d think the film was sponsored by Boar’s Head. |
| The SpectatorDeborah RossThe Benefactor is both a bad film and a thoroughly inexplicable one. |
| Los Angeles TimesSheri LindenWhat begins as an intriguing psychological thriller devolves into an addiction drama, growing less interesting as it proceeds and giving costars Dakota Fanning and Theo James little to do. |
| New York PostSara StewartFanning has little to do beyond grasping her prosthetic stomach, but James is a decent foil for Gere, who gives form to the highly topical subject of how pain meds destroy lives. |
| AV ClubA.A. DowdThat makes the role well tailored to its occupant: Gere stays within his range of moneyed playboys, while still getting to indulge in the kind of unflattering behavior that a more put-together Richard Gere character would never exhibit. |
| NewcityRay PrideHe's all brass and bravado, his poor little rich man at once generous and self-gratifying, pained and also a pain to the family-to-be he forces his favors onto. |
| The Straits Times (Singapore)John LuiEveryone, especially Fanning, gives fine performances. But Andrew Renzi, making his feature debut, directs and edits this television-style drama as if it were a Hitchcockian thriller, leading to expectations of a payoff that never arrives. |
| The PlaylistJessica KiangIt promises a minute character study, but Franny, though embodied by a game Gere who in all fairness does visit places in his performance we have rarely seen him even stop by before, is less a person than a collection of quirks. |
| Screen InternationalDavid D'ArcyThe actor’s comic sad clown performance lifts the film above an ordinary script. |
