US EditionKeanu Reeves, Seth Rogen Join Aziz Ansari for Comedy 'Good Fortune'
Aziz Ansari’s directorial debut uses comedy to highlight gig economy struggles and wealth gaps, featuring a life-swap plot with Keanu Reeves as a guardian angel.
- On Friday, Good Fortune opens in theaters, starring Aziz Ansari with Keanu Reeves as Gabriel and Seth Rogen in a guardian-angel body-swap premise.
- Ansari wrote and directed the film, blending comedy and social commentary to address wealth disparity and the gig economy.
- Scenes depict app-based gig workers losing time and pay, while Arj faces mounting bills, tickets, a towed car, and is fired after misusing Jeff’s company card during a trial.
- Reviewers found the film's humor uneven, saying it lacks laugh-out-loud moments and toothless messages, while praising Keanu Reeves' comic turn as a standout highlight.
- As a mainstream comedy it does not turn away from tents, RVs and gig workers across Los Angeles, but reviewers say Ansari diagnoses inequity clearly with few solutions.
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Delight is hard to come by at the movies these days, and most of us will take any little scrap we can get. Good Fortune, Aziz Ansari’s directorial debut—he also wrote the film and stars in it—may be a movie made up of scraps, but plenty of them throw off sparks of joy. Like One of Them Days, a surprise hit earlier this year, Good Fortune has the cojones to confront one of the major issues of the day: that too many people are working too hard for…
Keanu Reeves, Seth Rogen join Aziz Ansari for comedy 'Good Fortune'
Keanu Reeves is officially an angel. At least he plays one in the new comedy, "Good Fortune." It's a film written, produced, directed and also starring Aziz Ansari. In the film, an angel takes a man under his wings to help the guy get back to a better place in his life.
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