2012 · drama · romance
Good Deeds
Directed by Tyler Perry2h 9m2012
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.
Warm, steady, gentle drama / romance, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- warm
- gentle
- redemptive
- intimate
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