The Benefactor
The movie tells the story of a newly married couple who are forced to navigate the all-consuming interest of a powerful, mysterious, and possessive philanthropist who is in an attempt to relive his past.
25 April 1947
7 November 1978, Livingston, New Jersey, USA
21 September 1965, Miami Beach, Florida, USA
1 February 2007, West Grove, Pennsylvania, USA
16 December 1984, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
September 06, 2016
The only good thing that makes this movie worth seeing it's Gere's performance. [Full review in Spanish]
August 25, 2016
Not even Gere's performance is good enough to recommend this terrible movie. [Full review in Spanish]
January 22, 2016
If the conclusion is a little too sunny, that's a small flaw in an otherwise compelling film about the hazards of trying to buy emotional connection.
January 15, 2016
Gere, an actor capable of great nuance, hams it up so mightily you'd think the film was sponsored by Boar's Head.
January 26, 2016
"A compelling portrait of a man on the verge.... Suffers from a sense of rigidity that somehow both fits its themes and stymies a greater sense of realism."
January 15, 2016
Fanning has little to do beyond grasping her prosthetic stomach, but James is a decent foil for Gere, who gives form to the highly topical subject of how pain meds destroy lives.
January 21, 2016
As a memorable work of cinema, it misses every important mark by a mile.
August 31, 2016
Believe me when I say that not even a single scene in this film works. Gere is terrible here and the plot goes on and on to nowhere. [Full review in Spanish]
February 22, 2016
Has Richard Gere been hitting the bong?
