History Film / GoodTime

** When Connie [[spoiler:is finally arrested, the long-take close-up of his VillainousBSoD in the backseat of the police car will look very familiar to anyone who remembers Bob Hoskins realizing how deeply fucked he is at the end of ''Film/TheLongGoodFriday''.]]

* LatexPerfection: Averted - Connie and Nick attempt this for their bank robbery, disguising themselves as bald African-American males. Rather than invoking the CastAsAMask trope, the characters use actual full-head silicone rubber masks ([[OffTheShelfFX made by SPFX Masks]], to be exact, their "Player" mask), further obscured with wool hats, hoods and sunglassses. The effect is pretty decent, if you don't look too closely at them....

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[Music/IggyPop The pure always act from love.\\
The damned always act from love.]]'']]

Constatine "Connie" Nikas (Pattinson) is a bank robber from Queens, New York who ends up in a mess when his mentally handicapped brother Nick Nikas (Safdie) winds up in Riker’s Island after a hastily executed bank robbery goes horribly wrong. Connie must now spend the night trying to get Nick out in one way or another, meeting an assortment of characters while also trying to avoid the law enforcement looking for him.

* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: Dash wakes up framed for trespassing and drugged with an extremely high dose of acid. In his ensuing panic, he's unable to speak a coherent word, much less prove his innocence.]]

* TheBigRottenApple: The film takes place in Queens, New York, and generally comes across as a WretchedHive of crime, drugs and dysfunction.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Crystal winds up arrested, Ray dies, the bottle of acid is spilled, and Connie is arrested, but him finally telling the truth gets Nick out of prison, reunited with his grandmother, and starting to break free of his influence.]]

* ThousandYardStare: [[spoiler:The last time we see Connie, he gets caught and arrested by police. As he is escorted towards a police car, watches Ray die, and is then driven away, he has a distant, unreadable look in his eyes, as if in shock or just now realizing the cost of his actions and how thoroughly he screwed up.]]

* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler: Ray tries to escape the cops by climbing out of the apartment window and then shimmying over to an adjacent balcony, all with a broken shoulder and one good eye. He falls to his death as a result.]]
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The trailer depicts several prominent moments that occur around the film's climax, including [[spoiler:Dash being arrested, Ray falling to his death, and Connie in the back of a police car after being arrested]].

* AmbiguousDisorder: Nick is heavily implied to have Down syndrome and wears hearing aids, while Connie is a {{manipulative|Bastard}} [[TheSociopath sociopath]] with no real positive personality traits (save for the fact he does seem to love his brother, though that doesn't stop him from involving him in a bank robbery). Corey seems to have issues, too, being an ExtremeDoormat prone to mood swings with a short attention span.

* LatexPerfection: Averted - Connie and Nick attempt this for their bank robbery, disguising themselves as bald African-American males. Rather than invoking the CastAsAMask trope, the characters use actual full-head silicone rubber masks ([[OffTheShelfFX made by SPFX Masks]], to be exact, their "Player" masl), further obscured with wool hats, hoods and sunglassses. The effect is pretty decent, if you don't look too closely at them....

* VillainousBSoD: Connie spends the whole night lying, cheating, stealing and worse, but none of it seems to hit him until he [[spoiler: causes a man's death.]] The last we see of him is him starring blankly into the camera [[spoiler: from the back of a cop car.]]

** [[spoiler: Dash and and Crystal are both arrested, and the audience is not told what happens to them afterwards. It can be assumed that the police would eventually figure out the Dash was working security and had been framed by Connie. Crystal's fate, however, is more uncertain.]]

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Ray may not have been any more sleazy than Connie, but it would still have been depressing if a scumbag like him became a KarmaHoudini]].

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Crystal winds up arrested, Ray dies, and the bottle of acid is spilled, but Connie is arrested and him finally telling the truth gets Nick out of prison, reunited with his grandmother, and starting to break free of his influence.]]
* BlackEyesOfEvil: Connie has this [[spoiler:when he's in the police cruiser at the end of the movie.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[Music/IggyPop The pure always act from love\\
The damned always act from love]]'']]

!!Tropes:

* IdenticalStranger: [[spoiler:Connie breaks Ray out of the hospital instead of Nick, due to mistaking their similar curly hairstyles.]]
* IndyPloy: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]]. Connie's plans are usually made up on the fly and are always just clever enough to get him out of *immediate* trouble, but fraught with [[DidntThinkThisThrough long-term problems and add to his wrap sheet.]][[spoiler: Unsurprisingly, the film ends with Connie being caught and arrested while fleeing from his latest botched crime.]]

* MacGuffin: Three! The initial backpack of mostly-ruined money which Connie hides in the pizzeria bathroom and has to go back for later, the duffel bag of cash stolen from a RadioShack that's been hidden somewhere in the amusement park funhouse, and the Sprite bottle full of LSD that drives the rest of the plot. [[spoiler:Connie ends up losing it in a parking lot as he's tackled by police.]]

* MindRape: [[spoiler: Dash is force fed LSD after being beaten unconscious. When he wakes up all he can do is scream incoherently and thrash around as the police try to restrain him. It can be inferred that he eventually came down from it and told the police what really happened (given that they show up at his apartment to arrest Connie), but this had to have been an extremely traumatic experience for him]].

* PetTheDog: Connie has his moments with his brother and to an extent with Crystal. Though while the former seems genuine if misguided, it's hard to tell in the latter case what's genuine and what's an effort to endear himself to her for manipulative purposes. Ultimately Connie's sympathetic acts don't do much good for either of them. He does literally pet several dogs throughout the movie, though.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: A downplayed and maybe even unconscious example, but Connie's schemes repeatedly rely on him scapegoating black people for his own crimes and trusting the police to be racist enough to buy it. [[spoiler: The only reason he and Ray escape the amusement park, for instance, is because he was able to fool the responding officers into thinking that Crystal and Dash, both of whom are black, were the intruders]].

* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler: Ray tries to escape the cops by climbing out of the apartment window and then shimmying over to an adjacent balcony, all with a broken shoulder and one good eye. He falls to his death as a result]].

Constatine "Connie" Nikas (Pattinson) is a bank robber from Queens, New York who ends up in a mess when his mentally handicapped brother Nick Nikas (Safdie) winds up in Riker’s Island after a hastily executed bank robbery goes horribly wrong. Connie now must spend the night trying to get Nick out in one way or another, meeting an assortment of characters while also trying to avoid the law enforcement looking for him.

''Good Time'' was edited by Benny Safdie and Bronstein, and received an electronic score by Music/OneohtrixPointNever that took influence from diverse sources including Music/TangerineDream and {{progressive rock}}.

* AbusiveParents: In the beginning, there was an incident involving Connie and Nick's grandmother attacking them that the latter is visibly impacted by. [[spoiler:Subverted when it turns out that Connie attacked his Grandmother and lied to Nick about what happened.]]
* TheAlcoholic: Ray. The first thing he does when he gets out of prison and later [[spoiler:when he enters Dash's apartment]] is to drink a bottle of booze.
* AmbiguousDisorder: Nick is heavily implied to have Downs Syndrome and wears hearing aids, while Connie is a ManipulativeBastard [[TheSociopath sociopath]] with no real positive personality traits (save for the fact he does seem to love his brother, though that doesn't stop him from involving him in a bank robbery). Corey seems to have issues too, being prone to mood swings and is an ExtremeDoormat with a short attention span.

* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: Dash wakes up framed for trespassing and drugged with an extremely high dose of acid. In his ensuing panic he's unable to speak a coherent word, much less prove his innocence.]]
* AnimalMotifs: Connie has dogs. He's shown to be friendly with Corey [[spoiler:and Dash's]] dogs, and claims he was a dog in a previous life.

* ClusterFBomb: Incredibly prominent throughout the movie, especially Connie and Ray, which is {{Justified}} considering they’re two criminals on the run.

** Nick gets beaten up by a bunch of inmates at Rikers after repeatedly trying to change the channel on the TV.

* ThePatientHasLeftTheBuilding: Connie attempts to break his brother out of the hospital, only to find out [[spoiler:he's got [[IdenticalStranger the wrong guy]]]]

* PoliceAreUseless: Zig-zagged. The NYPD is portrayed as a brutal and ham-handed institution, carelessly tossing the mentally disabled Nick into general population where he is beaten into a coma, and then unquestioningly arresting at least two innocent black people for crimes that Connie actually committed. [[spoiler: The latter deception only fools them for a few hours at best however, and they are ultimately able to track down, corner and arrest Connie with little difficulty.]]

''Good Time'' is a 2017 crime-drama film directed by [[Creator/TheSafdieBrothers Josh and Benny Safdie]] and starring Creator/RobertPattinson.

Constatine "Connie" Nikas (Robert Pattinson) is a bank robber from Queens, New York who ends up in a mess when his mentally handicapped brother Nick Nikas (Ben Safdie) winds up in Riker’s Island after a hastily executed bank robbery goes horribly wrong. Connie now must spend the night trying to get Nick out one way or another, meeting an assortment of characters while also trying to avoid the law enforcement looking for him.

Other stars include Creator/JenniferJasonLeigh, Barkhad Abdi, and Buddy Duress. The screenplay was written by Josh Safdie and Ronald Bronstein, the cinematography was provided by Sean Price Williams, and the film was edited by Ben Safdie and Bronstein.

''Good Time'' premiered at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival and was instantly acclaimed for the Safdies' direction, cinematography, soundtrack (provided by Music/OneohtrixPointNever) and Pattinson's performance. It was subsequently released in theaters by A24.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Connie. He at one point accuses Ray of being an idiot and a parasite who contributes nothing to society. This is coming from a guy who has done nothing but lie and steal the whole film, pulled his mentally disabled brother from specialist therapy that would probably help him and got him arrested, and keeps coming up with poorly thought out plans that make the situation worse. Ray really has a point about he and Connie being NotSoDifferent.