A Good Enough Day

This lovely film is a shattering deep dive into our human need for connection and our painful and inevitable desire to have made a difference. This moody and quiet picture is chocked full of pain and regret and hope and redemption. Tragedy sends our hero off course, and yet, he needs desperately to redeem his relationships as a parent, as a friend, as a member of a greater community. There are many greater intellectual ideals being communicated below the surface, but how human it is to grieve and to fail. How beautiful it is to decide to make a difference. At great cost and even against the odds.

A Good Enough Day written, directed and started by Travis St. John will resonate and stay with you long after you've experienced it. There's a wonderful subtle depth dichotomy of the lead actor Travis St. John that brings to Tyler Hamilton in his relationship with himself and love ones on his last days of his life. One of the things the movie asks from his audience is try to understand and accept your own complexities and nuances in order to live a life worth living. Not only the story is allowing you to be in a powerful communion with every character that we hear and see. At the same time you find yourself pulsating back and forth for permission of being accepted and maybe heal from where you are. Silence is accurate after watching it for it's working on you.

I was moved by the powerful film "A Good Enough Day" as it exposed the depth of love, loss and the travails that can come our way. Trevor St. John captures the quiet loneliness and and depression that all of can feel in our lives. The simplicity and universal message of the story adds to the connection we feel with the character. It is beautifully filmed as he struggles with the loss in his life and his attempts to reach out to others and seek solace in his life. I have viewed the film several times and am always drawn into the struggles that the character, Tyler Hamilton, is experiencing. Very touching--highly recommended.

This is one man's journey into and out of his own hell. That may sound dramatic, and the film is, but it's also subtle, endlessly creative within its parameters, and rather funny at times. Yes, funny. It doesn't attack you in any way, but lets you lean in. Lets you participate. Because that's what any great performance does and Trevor St. John delivers. The film will also get you thinking about the relationships in your own life, conversations that need to be had, demons that need to be exorcized. Maybe you'll pickup the phone afterward, probably not. But at least you get to watch someone do the heavy lifting for you. Bravo.

While we can all relate to family stories of loss and grief, love and drama, the way this movie takes us on a journey through Tyler's life is beautiful.

The emotions in every actor were so genuine and palpable, and specially Tyler, that it was hard to hold back the tears as we watched. And I loved that about this movie.

The writing was masterful. How the script intentionally connected details and moments throughout the movie, creating an effect of time slowing down while keeping the audience captivated.

The music was carefully added to support the emotions of what was happening in the story without ruining the moment. The filming was beautifully done.

This is a gem of a movie.