Summaries

Willis and Harison Goodman are brothers and contract killers pitted against a jealous adversary.

Harrison and Willis Goodman are the Goodman Brothers. Operating under the direction of their father, Jackson Goodman, the Goodman brothers handle the day to day operations of the family business; the business of elite professional killers tackling high profile targets. Jackson is the family patriarch, the epitome of a businessman and a devoted husband. Harrison is the younger brother and heir to the family empire, he is logical, calm, and intelligent, Willis is the elder brother, he has impulse control issue and only does one thing well. Every day is business as usual until a rival contract killer makes it personal with the Goodman brothers, and then it becomes clear that Goodman is not a very good man...and neither is Goodman.

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  • dark
Genres
  • Action
  • Thriller
  • Drama
Release date Feb 28, 2015
Countries of origin Canada
Language English
Production companies Experiment FIVE

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Synopsis

Harrison & Willis Goodman are the Goodman Brothers, the two sons of Jackson Goodman, a man who has made a successful career as a contract killer and is now farming work out to his two sons who use their skills and savvy to eliminate cunning, high profile targets.

Jackson is the family patriarch, the epitome of a businessman and a devoted husband, and like any business owner, he wishes to pass the family business along to his two sons. Harrison is the younger brother and he takes after his father, he is calm and meticulous and a tactician. Willis is the elder brother and he suffers from severe impulse control issues and a natural gift for killing,

The Goodman men are offset by Miriam Goodman, the family matriarch and the heart and soul of the family whose mission is to mend the relationship between Jackson and Willis as well as the relationship between Willis and his estranged wife, Yaël.The Goodman clan has been hired to hunt and eliminate high profile or influential targets, people who know too much, but they are not the only assassins hunting these targets, they are being played off against another contract killer, Bennet, by their mysterious employer, George Carter. Things escalate further when the Goodman family abducts Jimmy Phish, Carter's son, as part of an insurance policy against a double-cross.

Meanwhile, police captain Donovan and detective Philips, along with investigative reporter Rachael Burgess, are falling the trail of a pair of serial killers known only as the "Toledo Twosome". The stories intersect when Jackson Goodman attempts to take over the police department as a means of covering up the trail left behind by his sons.

Things take a turn for the worst when Bennet crosses a line with the family that can not be uncrossed, making both he, and Carter into targets for the Goodman clan, and caught in the middle of the chaos is Willis' wife, Yaël.

"Goodman & Goodman" is a slick thriller and a revenge movie built on the trope of a family of anti-heroes. With many adventurous turns, and ultimately we will learn that Goodman is not a very good man... and neither is Goodman.

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