Despite a title which might lead you to believe otherwise, Good Time is not an easy-going, popcorn flick; the gritty, pulp thriller falls into a genre that could be described as "movies about very, very bad nights." Robert Pattinson plays Connie Nikas, a small-time criminal trying to get his brother Nick out of jail after a bank robbery gone wrong. Brotherhood frames the movie, both on-screen and behind the scenes — Benny Safdie, who plays the character of Nick, directed the movie with his brother, Josh Safdie. But the directors insist that the movie's fraternal themes weren't entirely conscious. "This fraternal element was something that we don't even have to think about," Josh Safdie says. "We just kind of bring it to the movie." Interview Highlights On casting the character of the brother Nick, who has an intellectual disability Josh Safdie: We were looking into casting actors with real disabilities and we were very far along in that process and we were interviewing a lot of people
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