The Benefactor (2015)
Storyline
A newly married couple are forced to navigate the all-consuming interest of a powerful, mysterious, and possessive philanthropist.
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Cast
Dakota Fanning, Jeffrey Mowery, Dylan Baker, Brian Anthony Wilson, Theo James, Richard Gere, Tibor Feldman, Dennis Lauricella, Jennifer Butler, Cheryl Hines, Derrick T. Lewis, Andrea Havens, Mihir Pathak, Maria Breyman, Jaclyn McHugh, Erica Lynne Marszalek, Lavonne Nichols, Shawn Gonzalez, Michelle Santiago, Ryan Shank, Clarke Peters, Roy James Wilson, Dennisha Pratt, Gregory Brown, Lyssa Roberts, Marko Caka, Erica Cho, Matthew Daisher, Michael Daisher, Justin Goncalves, Ian Bonner, Rory Ogden, Michele Everwine, Marc Bicking, Lynn Golden, Kelly Buterbaugh, Evan Fenster, Jayson Williams, Yesenia Mercado, Megan Rose, Kimberly Villanova, Barbara Edwards, Giovanna Labozzetta, Amanda Wilson, Nola Sanginiti, Deidre Washington, Kayla Grasser, Laura Hart, Heather Soellner, Sean Zerbe
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Reviews
70
The movie ends in a more conventional place than the one where it begins, yet it still marks a surprising and graceful first fiction feature for writer-director Andrew Renzi.
60
The actor’s comic sad clown performance lifts the film above an ordinary script.
58
That makes the role well tailored to its occupant: Gere stays within his range of moneyed playboys, while still getting to indulge in the kind of unflattering behavior that a more put-together Richard Gere character would never exhibit.
50
Renzi's uneven script makes this a less sturdy vehicle than 2012's Arbitrage, and a less marketable one given the absence of thriller elements that sustained that film's character study. Still, there's plenty here for Gere's admirers to appreciate.
50
It promises a minute character study, but Franny, though embodied by a game Gere who in all fairness does visit places in his performance we have rarely seen him even stop by before, is less a person than a collection of quirks.
