Catherine Keener and Charlie Heaton star in an intimate drama that delves into the emotional fallout of addiction.
, as his onetime best friend, with a lived-in, understated intensity. The drama around them too often lands rather neatly on the surface, saying exactly what it means, but through the unpredictability of its two leads, Keener especially, and in the knotty connection between their characters, the movie gets under the skin and goes beyond the bromide-laden playbook.
Though it contains crucial scenes of 12-step meetings, the film doesn’t follow the template for addiction-therapy drama . For their second feature, after 2015’s, directors Andrew Irvine and Mark Smoot, working from Smoot’s screenplay, are concerned with the emotional fallout of addiction and recovery, the layers of damage not just for addicts but for those around them, and the ways that well-meaning people, caught in the maelstrom, inflict pain.
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