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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Critics Consensus

Having a maniacally fun time while wrestling with provocative questions about rehabilitation, Heel is a nutty thriller that has a surprising amount of method to its madness.

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Robert Abele

Los Angeles Times

5d

“Heel” is Tolstoy’s happy-family maxim cooked in a mad scientist’s lab.

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Thelma Adams

AARP Movies for Grownups

5d

3/5

Whether Heel advocates for or indicts troubled-teen reprogramming is never clarified, but its despair at the societal decline caused by teens’ pervasive drug and social media abuse resonates

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Owen Gleiberman

Variety

5d

Can this monster delinquent be rehabilitated? Theoretically, that’s an interesting question, except that the way this happens is so garishly contrived that we can only go with the movie by putting any plea for reality on permanent hold.

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Bee Delores

B-Sides & Badlands

2d

4.5/5

Komasa breathes life into the screenplay in unexpected ways, with Boon delivering a career-defining performance—raw, visceral, and unfiltered.

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Maxance Vincent

InSession Film

2d

D+

Komasa’s formal impulses are still intact, but they’re in service of a screenplay that has no idea what it wants to say about anything it lays in front of the audience.

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Carmen Paddock

The Skinny

2d

4/5

Graham’s understated everyman and Riseborough’s just-off-kilter portrait of normal are equally captivating, especially as events spiral towards the weird.

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Kelly H.

@kells89 1h

A chilling and deeply dark film that leaves you morally uncertain from start to finish.

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Joanne H

@RT85208661 15h

The best film I have watched for a long time. The psychological and insight of the characters was really good.

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Vincent S

@Vin_E_At_The_Movies 1d

I love how the story unfolds in the gothic, very entertaining and intriguing "Heel". Anson Boon gives an outstanding performance, and Stephen Graham is also excellent. I love the dread, the suspense and the atmosphere of this thriller that always keeps you locked into the story and characters. Director Jan Komasa has directed another winner after "Anniversary".

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anabel C

@RT38594713 1d

Fully entertaining, with a great pace and brilliant acting. It’s the kind of film that leaves you wondering what it all meant, but not in an overwhelming way. If you pause and reflect, you can find the deeper meaning, but it’s not a brain-twister. It simply makes you think. The plot twists are also very satisfying.

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Elle T

@Elle66 2d

Wasn't really sure where this was going but was interested from the off with Stephen Graham and his toupee. Good story, kinda worked out what was going on but annoyingly there are still a lot of unanswered questions ie. why was there a need for the cleaner 🤷

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Deborah T

@Debs69 3d

Well i watched this because i lime pretty much everything with Stephen Graham in it. God!! How disappointing, i just didn’t get it! I mean how did the lad end up in his house? Why were the wife and son so weird? Where did the cleaner go to?? The ending was the only bit to me that made any sense! Extremely disappointing

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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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