Posted 10/17/2025
The 2025 film Good Fortune is a comedy-fantasy written and directed by Aziz Ansari, who also stars as Arj, a struggling gig worker barely making ends meet in Los Angeles, to the point of sleeping in his car. The story is a modern take on the classic body-swap trope, initiated by Gabriel (Keanu Reeves), an inept, low-ranking guardian angel who has grown tired of his duty of preventing texting-while-driving accidents. Believing money cannot truly solve Arj's despair, Gabriel meddles in human affairs by magically switching Arj's life with that of Jeff (Seth Rogen), an oblivious, ultra-wealthy tech venture capitalist who once briefly hired Arj as an assistant.
Gabriel's plan immediately backfires, as Arj finds that being instantaneously rich actually does solve most of his problems, leading him to fully embrace Jeff's life of luxury with no desire to switch back. Meanwhile, the privileged Jeff struggles mightily to survive and hold down low-wage gig jobs in Arj's former life, and Gabriel is stripped of his wings and turned human by his angelic boss, Martha (Sandra Oh), as punishment for his cosmic meddling. The film follows the three characters as they are forced to confront the realities of their new situations, ultimately learning profound lessons about social inequality, the struggles of the working class, and what it truly means to find hope and fulfillment in a world obsessed with wealth.
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