Given GOOD NEIGHBORS' fiercely unlikeable characters, weak stabs at black humor and dour, predictable film noir sensibilities, the real mystery here is why it didn’t head directly to DVD.
Despite its gray, snowy bleakness, perhaps the film's one redeeming quality is its Montreal setting in 1995, during Quebec’s failed referendum for independence; unfortunately though we get little sense of the tumult on the ground.
Louise, (Emily Hampshire) a bland, depressed thirty-something waitress at a Chinese restaurant, has a crush on her neighbor, sunny Spencer (Scott Speedman), always inexplicably grinning despite being stuck in his apartment, paralyzed in a wheel chair. They soon become pals with the geeky new tenant in the building, Victor (Jay Baruchel).
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