Opens Thursday at local theaters.įast forward a few years, and while Allison keeps on saying “It wasn’t my fault” whenever someone mentions the accident (she says it so many times we get it, it WAS her fault), she’s clearly and deeply damaged, having spiraled into a self-destructive addiction to alcohol and oxycontin.

Rated R (for drug abuse, language throughout and some sexual references).

MGM Studios presents a film written and directed by Zach Braff. We know we’re in for some Major Life Lessons from the moment Morgan Freeman’s Daniel tinkers with his elaborate, years-in-the-making model railway setup and talks in voice-over about how you can control the miniature figures and the imagined lives in this basement universe, unlike the messy and painful realities of actual life, where things rarely turn out the way things want to be.Īfter a rather confusing prologue where we’re just starting to figure out the relationships between all the characters, there’s a horrific accident when Florence Pugh’s Allison gets distracted looking at her phone and plows into a construction crane, resulting in the deaths of her fiancé’s sister and husband. The tagline on the poster for writer-director Zach Braff’s contrived, heavy-handed and tragedy-soaked drama “A Good Person” reads, “Sometimes we find hope where we least expect it.” Well, that’s true, but it’s kind of a fortune-cookie, greeting-card philosophy - and while we can’t fault the filmmaker for the marketing, that slogan is indicative of the well-meaning but ultimately hollow nature of the work itself.

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