British documentary filmmaker Chloe Ruthven's grandparents were aid workers in Palestine. Growing up, she had avoided getting too involved in the subject, recalling how mention of the country made all the adults in her life angry. In her forties, after revisiting her grandmother's book on the subject, she starts to research a documentary on the effects of foreign aid in the area and is shocked at the continued reliance on it there. Along the way she meets Lubna, a Palestinian woman who acts as her driver and fixer, and who is fiercely critical of Western aid efforts in her country. What begins as a quest to better understand her family history turns into a deeply emotional account of two women trying to understand one another. Ruthven's determination to focus her film on deeply subjective analysis results in a unique joining of the acutely personal and complexly political.
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The Do Gooders was released in 2013 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 1 reviews, giving The Do Gooders (2013) an average rating of 72%.
Overall, cinema-goers much prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 80%, compared to film critics, who gave it a considerably lower average score of 0%. Amateur reviewers enjoyed The Do Gooders a lot more than professional critics.
With a score of 72%, The Do Gooders is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2013, which stands at 58%.
Other movies from 2013 with similar scores include films like Despicable Me 2, Monsters University and Side Effects.
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