Writer-director Zach Braff takes on a host of big picture issues, from grief and loss to trauma to the opioid crisis, in "A Good Person," by far his best and most realized film to date.
It helps that it hangs on the shoulders of two considerably gifted actors, Florence Pugh and Morgan Freeman, who find the emotional truths in Braff's screenplay. But Braff takes care of the rest, grounding the drama in a recognizable version of reality and keeping the overbaked melodrama, for the most part, to a minimum.
Pugh plays Allison, who as the film opens is getting ready to marry her fiance, Nathan (Chinaza Uche). One day while driving to try on wedding dresses with Nathan's sister and her husband, Allison is involved in a car wreck, which kills her two passengers and leaves her bruised and scarred, but in a position where she'll recover. Physically, at least.
