A Good Woman Is Hard to Find

2019

Action / Crime / Drama / Horror / Thriller

70
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 68% · 53 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 68% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 5944 5.9K

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Plot summary

The recently widowed mother of two, Sarah, is desperate to know who murdered her husband in front of her young son, rendering him mute. Coerced into helping a low-life drug dealer stash narcotics stolen from the local Mr. Big, she's forced into taking drastic action to protect her children, evolving from downtrodden submissive to take-charge vigilante.

Director

Abner Pastoll Photo
Abner Pastoll

Top cast

Sarah Bolger Photo
Sarah Bolger as Sarah
James McCaffrey Photo
James McCaffrey as Conor
Packy Lee Photo
Packy Lee as Mackers
Daryl McCormack Photo
Daryl McCormack as PC Reeves
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891.35 MB
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English 2.0
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24 fps
1 hr 36 min
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862.4 MB
1280*534
English 2.0
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24 fps
1 hr 37 min
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1.79 GB
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English 5.1
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24 fps
1 hr 36 min
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English 2.0
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24 fps
1 hr 37 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by youngcollind 6 / 10

Effective thriller on a budget

The plot is pretty straightforward, it has some clever twists but nothing ground breaking. The unshakable tension is impressive, maintaining a genuine feeling of suspense and unease from beginning to end. Sarah Bolger's performance is fantastic, she delivers a very human character that you can really feel is tearing apart at the seams. To move the plot forward, they rely on several overly convenient and unbelievable coincidences, and it kinda takes you out of things sometimes. Otherwise, it's an easy watch, if you consider watching a women go through horrible things for 90 minutes to be easy to watch.
Reviewed by jimbo-53-186511 6 / 10

God help the mister who comes between mum, her son and his sister

Mild-mannered single parent Sarah (Sarah Bolger) has recently lost her husband (who had been murdered). Sarah struggles with the day-to-day challenge of raising her 2 children with limited money. Things take a turn for Sarah when Tito (Andrew Simpson) enters her life and mild-mannered Sarah soon learns that Tito may know something about her husband's death. With Tito's presence becoming increasingly unwelcome, Sarah takes matters in to her own hands and becomes more determined than ever to find out once and for all who murdered her husband...Set somewhere in Northern Ireland (no idea where as it's never explained) A Good Woman is Hard to Find is a low-budget thriller whose main focus is on an honest law-abiding woman being somewhat forced to take on a darker parallel existence in order to protect her children.This is a slow film which undoubtedly will be a problem to some people (the first 30 minutes are particularly challenging where we're mostly just witnessing people walking round in stony silence). Once Tito enters the picture then it does liven up a bit (early on there are some quiet moments of introspection some of which are insightful before we later see Tito show his true colours).From this point onwards the majority of the film focus on the other story strand (the heavies trying to track Tito down for stealing their drugs). At times the film does tend to lose focus and there are definitely flaws within the narrative - such as why Tito robs the heavies in the first place? This is never explained. It also has to be said that this film is quite graphic so those that are easily disturbed by extreme violence are advised to approach the film with caution. Also worth noting are the accents which can sometimes be quite hard to understand (and this is coming from someone that is English btw)Sarah's determination to get to the bottom of her husband's murder leads to a showdown with the heavies which is suitably tense with a couple of twists thrown in for good measure. Overall then this is not an amazing film that is likely to blow anyone away, but after a slow start it does begin to manifest its into an interesting journey about a woman's determination to protect her children whilst also finding out who killed her husband. It's definitely worth a look.
Reviewed by oarch 5 / 10

Watchable but with annoying plot holes

It's not like I had to stop this and swear. It's a perfectly watchable film set in Northern Ireland inside a neighborhood with unusually high crime rate, which kind of surprised me. But what surprised me more is that a sexy single mother with two small children would keep the extremely flimsy door to her apartment unlocked. Call me paranoid, but I would save for months to install a decent door if I were living in that neighborhood. Also, she keeps a big knife in the bedroom, just in case a rapist decides to break in through the flimsy back door. What surprised me the most, however, is that three murderous drug dealers would let anyone carry a large bag into their lair without paying any attention to what is inside the bag. With a few corrections here and there, the storyline could have been a lot more convincing. Other than that, I was entertained.
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