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Pop Culture Happy Hour

Good Fortune

Pop Culture Happy Hour

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4.511.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

In Good Fortune, Keanu Reeves plays a doofy, well-meaning guardian angel named Gabriel who gets a little too involved in the life of a gig worker named Arj (Aziz Ansari). In trying to teach Arj a life lesson, Gabriel grants him the opportunity to swap places with a finance mogul (Seth Rogen). This mostly buddy comedy is Ansari’s feature directorial debut and has a bit to say about wealth inequality and even some musings on what makes life meaningful.


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0:28.0

Having a guardian angel is supposed to be a good thing.

0:31.6

But in the new comedy, Good Fortune, a guy who's trying to survive in the gig economy

0:36.9

learns that not all angels

0:38.8

are equally helpful.

0:40.4

Starring Keanu Reeve, Seth Rogan, and Aziz Ansari, the movie is mostly a buddy comedy

0:45.8

with a bit of commentary on wealth inequality and even some musings on what makes life meaningful.

0:52.1

I'm Aisha Harris.

0:53.5

And I'm Linda Holmes, and today we're talking about Good Fortune on Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR.

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Absolutely.

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