Once you’ve seen the new film “Don’t Make Me Go,” it won’t come as a surprise that its writer, Vera Herbert, spent years penning episodes for and producing the recently concluded hit NBC drama “This Is Us.”
Debuting this week on Prime Video, the movie about the complex relationship between a father and daughter who go on a road trip shares the ability the series had to tap into your emotions without falling into the realm of the overly sappy.
“Interestingly,” Herbert says during a recent phone interview, “the script much predates the show. I wrote it and initially sold it 10 years ago.
