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Good is a 2008 drama film based on the stage play of the same name by Cecil Philip Taylor. It stars Viggo Mortensen, Jason Isaacs, and Jodie Whittaker, and was directed by Vicente Amorim. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 8 September 2008.
Apr 17, 2009 · With Viggo Mortensen, Jason Isaacs, Jodie Whittaker, Steven Mackintosh. John Halder, a German literature professor in the 1930s, is initially reluctant to accept the ideas of the Nazi Party. He is pulled in different emotional directions by his wife, his mother, his mistress, and a Jewish friend.
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- Drama, Romance, War
- Vicente Amorim
- 2009-04-17
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