
Run time: 129 mins
Florence Pugh and Tinseltown royalty Morgan Freeman anchor this touching drama about heartache, forgiveness, family, and fighting addiction.
Allison is an aspiring young woman with a wonderful fiancé, a blossoming career, and supportive family and friends. However, her world crumbles when she is involved in a fatal accident with her soon-to-be-sister-in-law and everything she thought she knew evaporates in an instant. Self-medicating with prescription pills and alcohol, Allison’s life falls apart as she tries to numb the pain. But after developing an unexpected connection with her would-be father-in-law Daniel, the two set out on a journey towards healing, comforted by the fact that they aren’t alone in their sorrow.
Written and director Zach Braff (Garden State) does a fine job in representing a realistic, convoluted path through grief; beginning with its often unexpected appearance in otherwise happy and normal lives and landing somewhere in between the ways in which it pulls some people apart and pulls others back together. Pugh, whose career continues to go from strength to strength, puts in a wonderfully heartfelt performance as Allison, while Freeman does what he’s always done so brilliantly well. As funny as it is moving, though bring the tissues just in case