{"id":40970,"date":"2026-01-13T11:50:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T16:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=40970"},"modified":"2026-01-13T11:50:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T16:50:40","slug":"good-time-2017-directed-by-josh-safdie-benny-safdie-starring-robert-pattison-benny-safdie-and-jennifer-jason-leigh-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=40970","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Good Time&#8221; (2017) directed by Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie, starring Robert Pattison, Benny Safdie and Jennifer Jason Leigh \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z011326zview_goodtime.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Good Time <\/strong><\/em>(2017)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:<strong> Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Robert Pattinson, Benny Safdie, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Barkhad Abdi <\/strong>and <strong>Laurence Blum.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Are you ready for a Good Time?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Connie is a small time criminal who takes care of Nick, his mentally impaired and often violent younger brother.\u00a0 Tired of struggling, Connie and Nick rob a bank.\u00a0 During the getaway, a dye pack explodes ruining the cash and causing them to wreck the getaway car.\u00a0 Now on foot, they are chased by the police.\u00a0 Connie escapes.\u00a0 Nick is caught.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Knowing that Nick won&#8217;t survive the night in lockup, Connie moves through New York City&#8217;s underworld, in an effort to raise enough cash to bail Nick out before his temper gets him killed.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Much of the movie was improvised.\u00a0 Only Robert Pattinson and Benny Safdie were given scripts.\u00a0 They other actors were given background and information about their characters.\u00a0 The scenes were then improvised. The mall chase scene was done during regular hours.\u00a0 The background characters were not actors and their reactions were real.<\/p>\n<p>Benny Safdie is perfect as Nick.\u00a0 He steals every scene.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Robert Pattison&#8217;s performance in<em> Good Time<\/em> is what brought him to Matt Reeves attention and made Reeves want him for <em>The Batman<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Eric Roberts originally played the bail bondsman.\u00a0 The scene was shot in Eric Paykert&#8217;s office.\u00a0 Paykert is an actual bail bondsman.\u00a0 The Safdies decided to reshoot the scene using Paykert as the bondsman.\u00a0 Paykert&#8217;s real wife played his on-screen wife as well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Josh Safdie said about the feel of the film: <em>&#8220;We wanted to make a piece of entertainment that has a pulpy feel to it. The movie takes place in only one night. It&#8217;s a film like a dream, like a nightmare.&#8221;<\/em> Mission accomplished.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>Good Time <\/strong><\/em>(2017) rates 4 of 5 stars.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z011326zview_goodtime2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"290\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Time (2017) Director: Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie Screenplay: Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie Stars: Robert Pattinson, Benny Safdie, Jennifer Jason<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,51,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40971,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40970\/revisions\/40971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}