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    'Good Time' Filmmakers Wanted To Make A Movie That 'Actually Feels Dangerous'

    The gritty pulp thriller follows a small-time criminal trying to get his brother out of jail after a bank robbery gone wrong. It's directed by brothers Josh and Benny Safdie.
    by Ari Shapiro Aug 23, 2017 2 minutes
    Brothers Josh (left) and Benny Safdie are the directors of the new action thriller <em>Good Time.</em>

    Despite a title which might lead you to believe otherwise, Good Time is not an easy-going, popcorn flick; the gritty, pulp thriller falls into a genre that could be described as "movies about very, very bad nights."

    Robert Pattinson plays Connie Nikas, a small-time criminal trying to get his brother Nick out of jail after a bank robbery gone wrong.

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