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Directed by | Josh Safdie Benny Safdie |
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Cinematography | Sean Price Williams |
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Music by | Oneohtrix Point Never |
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Distributed by | A24 |
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Running time | 101 minutes[1] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $2 million[2] |
Box office | $4.1 million[3] |
Good Time is a 2017 American crime-thriller film[4] directed by Josh and Benny Safdie and written by Josh Safdie and Ronald Bronstein. It stars Robert Pattinson as a small-time criminal who tries to free his developmentally disabled brother, played by Benny Safdie, from police custody, while attempting to avoid his own arrest; Buddy Duress, Taliah Lennice Webster, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Barkhad Abdi co-star. Electronic musician Oneohtrix Point Never composed the film's score.
Good Time was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or in the main competition section of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. The film was released by A24 on August 11 that same year. It received highly positive reviews from critics, with praise for Pattinson's performance, the direction, the story, and the music.