The Good Boy (MA 15+)

From Academy Award nominated director Jan Komasa, The Good Boy is a twisted thriller that unfolds like a dark fairy tale.

19-year-old hooligan Tommy, who revels in a life of drugs, parties, and violence. One night, on a bender with his reckless friends, he becomes separated from the group and is abducted by an unknown figure. Though he is no stranger to inflicting violence, he is enraged and horrified when he wakes to find himself chained in the basement of the isolated suburban family home of Chris, his wife Kathryn, and their young son Jonathan. The family sets out to reform Tommy's unruly behavior, forcing him to comply with their

Cast: Stephen Graham, Andrea Riseborough, Anson Boon, Austin Haynes, Kit Rakusen

Director: Jan Komasa

★★★★★ "Anchored by terrific performances from British acting royalty Stephen Graham and Andrea Riseborough, with a strong break-out turn from MobLand's Anson Boon, Good Boy is unlike any thriller you've seen this year" DIGITAL SPY

★★★★ "There is something very theatrical about Good Boy -- I can imagine this on the London West End stage...[a] bracingly wicked tale" GUARDIAN

★★★★ "Graham and Riseborough prove yet again that they can find humanity in even the most disturbing characters" TIMES UK

★★★★ "There's a pitch-black comical undertone to this unnerving dramatic thriller, making it impossible to look away from the screen as the offbeat story unfolds in unpredictable directions" SHADOWS ON THE WALL

★★★★ "Jan Komasa continues to be a director of interest with The Good Boy, a film that is far more exciting and deep than its basic premise suggests" THN

★★★★ "Graham’s understated everyman and Riseborough’s just-off-kilter portrait of normal are equally captivating, especially as events spiral towards the weird" THE SKINNY

★★★★ "[a] relentlessly bleak ‘fun’ and twisty-turny throughout, with Stephen Graham once again excelling in a role about adolescence of a different kind" FLICKERING MYTH

★★★★ "It’s a sick premise that only gets sicker, but sometimes sickness in the cure. Good Boy is tonally unique." EVENING STANDARD