“The Benefactor” (**1/2 out of four) was a middling drama about an aging philanthropist (Richard Gere) whose family was killed in a car accident who tries to relive his past by befriending and helping a newly married couple (Dakota Fanning and Theo James). Gere’s solid performance anchors this uneasy mix of sentimentality, romance, and story about recovery from drug addiction and redemption. Imperfect and overlong but still worth a look and another strong performance from Gere in his late-career comeback after “Arbitrage” and “Time Out Of Mind.”