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2012 · drama · romance

Good Deeds

Directed by Tyler Perry2h 9m2012
ElsewhereIMDb5.79kRT37%Metacritic43
  • warm
  • gentle
  • redemptive
  • intimate
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Warm, steady, gentle drama / romance, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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For all his life, wealthy businessman Wesley Deeds has done what's expected of him and has settled into a predictable routine. His scripted life begins to change, however, when he meets Lindsey Wakefield, a struggling single mother who works as a night janitor for his corporation and has just been evicted. He offers to help Lindsey get back on her feet and, though he's already engaged, romantic sparks begin to fly. Suddenly, he finds himself torn between what is expected of him and what he really wants.

Our read · Good Deeds (2012) reads as a warm, steady, grounded drama · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want Tyler Perry class-crossing romance with earnest uplift and comfort-food warmth.

ends upliftingyou’ll be fine aftersteady all the waygrips by minute 20attention 2/5feels its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upchild peril

Skip it tonightSkip if melodramatic predictability or a two-hour runtime kills your night.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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