Good One
New Directors/New Films 2024
April 3 - 14, 2024
A seemingly small incident has monumental implications in the extraordinary feature debut of India Donaldson, in which high school senior Sam (a revelatory Lily Collias) joins her father (James Le Gros) and his longtime buddy (Danny McCarthy) on a tense weekend camping trip in the Catskills.
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A seemingly small incident has monumental implications in the extraordinary feature debut of India Donaldson, a film of expertly harnessed naturalism and restrained emotional intensity. Seventeen-year-old high school senior Sam (a revelatory Lily Collias) has agreed to join her father Chris (James Le Gros) and his longtime buddy Matt (Danny McCarthy) on a camping trip in the Catskills, though she’d rather be hanging with her friends for the weekend. Affable and wise, Sam at first seems to enjoy the intergenerational bonding experience with the two divorced dads, yet the men’s own festering, middle-aged resentments begin to change the emotional tenor of the trip—until something happens that alters Sam’s perception of the men and her place in their orbit. Amidst the lush beauty and contemplative forest atmosphere in upstate New York, Good One asks provocative questions about the dynamics of family, friendship, and what it means to engage in or avoid conflict. A Metrograph Pictures release.
Please note: Open caption screenings of the film will play on August 27 at 7:15pm, August 29 at 6:30pm, August 30 at 7:15pm, August 31 at 3:15pm, September 3 at 7:15pm, and September 5 at 7:15pm.
Critic's Pick! An astounding [debut], full of the kind of emotional detail that can only come from personal experience.
—Alissa Wilkinson, The New York Times
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