Heel (The Good Boy)

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Heel (The Good Boy)

Mar 2026

1h 50m

Mystery & Thriller

Crime

Drama

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From Academy Award® nominated director Jan Komasa, HEEL is a twisted thriller that follows 19-year-old hooligan Tommy (Anson Boon), 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 (Golden Globe® winner Stephen Graham). 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 (Graham), his wife Kathryn (Academy Award® nominee Andrea Riseborough), and their young son Jonathan (Kit Rakusen). The family sets out to reform Tommy's unruly behavior, forcing him to comply with their relentless mind games or seek escape at any cost.

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Jourdain Searles

RogerEbert.com

18h

1.5/4

There's something inescapably artificial about the social commentary here. Like many genre films this decade, ‘Heel’ feels glaringly incomplete.

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Jeannette Catsoulis

New York Times

1d

Heel slots neatly into the work of a director who luxuriates in pitch-black fables with chewy moral centers.

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Steven Nguyen Scaife

Slant Magazine

5d

3/4

By keeping some of its cards close to its chest, Heel respects our intelligence, which helps it to earn its sneakily moving ending.

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Dana Han-Klein

We're Watching What?!

8h

3.8/5

It's is a moral conundrum chained up in a mystery smothered in some Stockholm syndrome. Grounded performances turn this potentially perturbing film into something hypnotizing.

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Todd Jorgenson

Cinemalogue

10h

It’s intriguing to watch the scenario play out within its claustrophobic confines, although the film struggles to articulate what it all means or why we should care.

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Al Alexander

Movies Thru the Spectrum

14h

A-

It’s sure to set tongues and tails wagging.

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Mike B

@Mickyb003 9h

Let me say firstly that this is brilliantly acted in a touchingly understated way. I don’t want to give anything away but the characters are all strangely likeable when due to their actions, none of them should be. It’s different in many ways. Ambitious in its simplicity. Well worth a watch.

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Synopsis

From Academy Award® nominated director Jan Komasa, HEEL is a twisted thriller that follows 19-year-old hooligan Tommy (Anson Boon), 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 (Golden Globe® winner Stephen Graham). 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 (Graham), his wife Kathryn (Academy Award® nominee Andrea Riseborough), and their young son Jonathan (Kit Rakusen). The family sets out to reform Tommy's unruly behavior, forcing him to comply with their relentless mind games or seek escape at any cost.

Director: Jan Komasa
Producer: Jeremy Thomas, Ewa Piaskowska, Jerzy Skolimowski
Screenwriter: Bartek Bartosik, Naqqash Khalid
Distributor: Magnolia Pictures
Production Co: Skopia Film, Recorded Picture Company
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 6, 2026, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 6, 2026
Runtime: 1h 50m

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