Good People (released in some countries as Getaway 2) is a 2014 American action thriller film directed by Henrik Ruben Genz and written by Kelly Masterson, based on Marcus Sakey's 2008 novel of same name.
[3] The film stars James Franco, Kate Hudson, Omar Sy, Tom Wilkinson, and Sam Spruell and tells the story of an American couple, Tom and Anna Wright, living in London who fall into severe debt while renovating their family's home.
The men rob a man named Khan, a well-known French heroin dealer, of his drugs and money.
The Wrights schedule a money drop with Witkowski, and then meet with Detective Halden and Khan separately to devise a plan.
A game of cat and mouse ensues throughout the house between Khan and his men, Witkowski and Marshall, and the Wrights.
The movie ends with the house burning to the ground, the Wrights moving out of their apartment, and Anna telling Tom that she is pregnant.
[6] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 42 out of 100, based on 11 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
[7] The Hollywood Reporter said about the film that "This is why bad things happen",[8] while Guy Lodge of the Variety Magazine criticized James Franco and Kate Hudson for their roles, saying that "[they] are uncharacteristically muted in this watchable but wholly unsurprising London crime caper".
[9] David Hughes of Empire, gave Good People 2 out of 5 and saying in his closing comments "Tom and Anna are so thinly sketched that by the time the painfully slow set-up starts to pay off, we no longer care who does what to whom, or why".