Review: Florence Pugh and Morgan Freeman star in a messy, maudlin melodrama from writer-director Zach Braff
This would-be three-hankie tear-jerker follows the travails of Allison , an obnoxious 20-something who’s on her way to pick out a wedding dress when she causes a car accident that kills two people, including her fiance’s sister Molly. The crash has other shattering repercussions: Molly’s father has to take care of his now-orphaned granddaughter, Ryan .
The film’s fraught, tangled relationships are supposed to mirror real life. But Braff writes his characters into too many impossible situations, gently presided over by Freeman, whose introductory voice-over notes that, unlike the model train set he’s built in his basement, we can’t control the tracks of our lives.As the story goes on, you might find yourself wishing that this train wreck came with fewer track switches. “A Good Person” fails in both writing and direction.
There are entire scenes that beg to be cut. As soon as we meet Allison, she’s grating, delivering a smarmy rendition of the Velvet Underground ballad “After Hours.” There’s also a completely unbelievable scene in which Allison goes slumming in a dive bar, only to run into a couple of old high school classmates eager to take their revenge on the once-popular girl who used to ignore them but now wants their drugs.
Still, Freeman is the only performer here who doesn’t overact. You can almost picture him saying no, politely, when Braff urged him to push the limits of decorum: “Son, I will give this silly line of yours the only reading that could lend it the slightest bit of credibility.” Just like that fateful car accident, however, “A Good Person” violently careens out of control. For the most part, it means well, and underneath all the sensationalism, there’s a valuable message of forgiveness and redemption, albeit one with a caveat: Easier said than done.
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