What could have been mawkish and overly sentimental is instead pointed and truthful.
Florence Pugh in"A Good Person." MUST CREDIT: Metro Goldwyn Mayer PicturesWriter-director Zach Braff takes on a host of big picture issues, from grief and loss to trauma to the opioid crisis, in"A Good Person," by far his best and most realized film to date.
Pugh plays Allison, who as the film opens is getting ready to marry her fiance, Nathan . One day while driving to try on wedding dresses with Nathan's sister and her husband, Allison is involved in a car wreck, which kills her two passengers and leaves her bruised and scarred, but in a position where she'll recover. Physically, at least.
When she finally drags herself to an AA meeting, she runs into Daniel , Nathan's estranged father. Daniel's life was also turned upside down by Allison's accident — he's now taking care of 16-year-old Ryan , after her mother was killed in the crash — but rather than turn her away from the building, Daniel encourages Allison to stay. The pair forms an unlikely bond as they both work through the pain of their pasts and try to forge a new path forward.
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