Dagur Kári

THE GOOD HEART

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Status: Completed

Director(s): Dagur Kári

Main cast: Paul Dano, Brian Cox, Bill Buell

Short synopsis : A comic, odd couple friendship between suicidal Lucas and misanthropic bar owner Jacques is disrupted by the arrival of love in the form of a beautiful, drunken air stewardess.

Long synopsis : Lucas has come to an existential dead-end. He is young and homeless, living in a cardboard box under the Brooklyn Bridge. With total lack of prospects for the future, Lucas tries to commit suicide, but the attempt is a failure like everything else in his life. Recuperating in hospital, Lucas is forced to share a room with Jacques, a grouchy old bar-owner whose unhealthy lifestyle has resulted in no fewer than five heart attacks. With no family and a high risk of passing away any minute, Jacques takes Lucas under his wing with the intention of passing on his legacy. Lucas moves in and begins a hectic learning process in a bar with its own set of rules and philosophies. Against all odds, Jacques and Lucas form a quirky friendship. Everything seems to be going according to plan... Until one rainy night when April, a drunken stewardess, strays into the bar. Lucas is unable to turn this beautiful stranger away and invites her to stay. This poses a dramatic threat to Jacques´ plans and from that point on, things can only go wrong.