Follows Allison, whose life falls apart following her involvement in a fatal accident.Follows Allison, whose life falls apart following her involvement in a fatal accident.Follows Allison, whose life falls apart following her involvement in a fatal accident.
- Awards
- 2 nominations
Chip Hamilton
- Chip
- (as Adam 'Chip' Hamilton)
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- TriviaFlorence Pugh wrote and performed two songs in A Good Person, "The Best Part" and the piano track titled "I Hate Myself".
- GoofsSouth Orange station in the movie is actually Mountain station. South Orange is an elevated rail stop, while the station used in the movie is an at level boarding.
- Crazy creditsFirms are mentioned in the disclosure. "The events, characters and firms depicted in this motion picture are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or to actual firms is purely coincidental."
- ConnectionsReferenced in OWV Updates: The Seventh OWV Awards - Last Update of 2022 (2022)
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A Good Person
A Good Person is a I hate to say it but.. an emotional rollercoaster, as cliché as it is. It's an effective movie at pulling at your heartstrings whilst also adding some comedic moments to brighten the mood. Being on the edge of tears, just to be pulled out by a more comedic moment could summarize this movie.
I'm still a little conflicted. This is my first Zach Braff movie I've seen and am a huge fan of Scrubs. And the influence of that show cannot be ignored when looking at A Good Person. It's quick shifts in tone accentuated with the music coming in, it's quintessential Scrubs. Now that's not to say it's a knock off of that style. This movie stands on it's own for sure. But it does tend to conflict me a bit if it is sometimes a little too tonally inconsistent. I wish it lingered longer on the drama, or was funnier on the flip side. But it stayed somewhat in the middle.
Technically, Braff still shows a couple weaknesses. Especially the club/party scenes are weak moments on a technical level. The rest of the movie looks great. Just those two scenes, the sound design, the set, just all a bit too fake.
This is in no due part to the acting, Pugh is obviously an incredible actress, supported by Freeman... can't go wrong, and a seeing Alex Wolff in a small surprise rol was great too. That being said I thought everyone was good here. Also I think I can tell Pugh had quite a bit of influence, with some great musical performances as well. She definitely turned this good movie into a great one.
Writing, is iffy at times. Though for the swearing Freeman does almost a must watch as it's just too funny. But the thing I disliked the most is it's decision to skip over quite a few moments in time, intentionally, but we needed so much more. At times it can feel like the movie skips around a bit quick, not allowing time to transition clearly, nor giving it enough depth to preface. Besides this, drug portrayal here is decent, but again coming back to being quite a bit hasty in it's writing, does seems quite chaotic at times and you have a hard time following someone's emotional state. Also some of the side character writing is meh, either written to be absurd/comedic, but for me never fit the tone. I have a slight problem with the final party scene too, but it does wrap up decently.
My bias is influencing this rating a bit. But it definitely is a worthy movie to watch. It can be funny and if it hits you right, get you teared up.
I'm still a little conflicted. This is my first Zach Braff movie I've seen and am a huge fan of Scrubs. And the influence of that show cannot be ignored when looking at A Good Person. It's quick shifts in tone accentuated with the music coming in, it's quintessential Scrubs. Now that's not to say it's a knock off of that style. This movie stands on it's own for sure. But it does tend to conflict me a bit if it is sometimes a little too tonally inconsistent. I wish it lingered longer on the drama, or was funnier on the flip side. But it stayed somewhat in the middle.
Technically, Braff still shows a couple weaknesses. Especially the club/party scenes are weak moments on a technical level. The rest of the movie looks great. Just those two scenes, the sound design, the set, just all a bit too fake.
This is in no due part to the acting, Pugh is obviously an incredible actress, supported by Freeman... can't go wrong, and a seeing Alex Wolff in a small surprise rol was great too. That being said I thought everyone was good here. Also I think I can tell Pugh had quite a bit of influence, with some great musical performances as well. She definitely turned this good movie into a great one.
Writing, is iffy at times. Though for the swearing Freeman does almost a must watch as it's just too funny. But the thing I disliked the most is it's decision to skip over quite a few moments in time, intentionally, but we needed so much more. At times it can feel like the movie skips around a bit quick, not allowing time to transition clearly, nor giving it enough depth to preface. Besides this, drug portrayal here is decent, but again coming back to being quite a bit hasty in it's writing, does seems quite chaotic at times and you have a hard time following someone's emotional state. Also some of the side character writing is meh, either written to be absurd/comedic, but for me never fit the tone. I have a slight problem with the final party scene too, but it does wrap up decently.
My bias is influencing this rating a bit. But it definitely is a worthy movie to watch. It can be funny and if it hits you right, get you teared up.
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $2,210,465
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $832,007
- Mar 26, 2023
- Gross worldwide
- $2,688,568
- Runtime2 hours 8 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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