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Good One

  • 2024
  • R
  • 1h 29m
IMDb RATING
6.7/10
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Lily Collias in Good One (2024)
During a weekend backpacking trip in the Catskills, 17-year-old Sam navigates the clash of egos between her father and his oldest friend.
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During a weekend backpacking trip in the Catskills, 17-year-old Sam navigates the clash of egos between her father and his oldest friend.During a weekend backpacking trip in the Catskills, 17-year-old Sam navigates the clash of egos between her father and his oldest friend.During a weekend backpacking trip in the Catskills, 17-year-old Sam navigates the clash of egos between her father and his oldest friend.

  • Director
    • India Donaldson
  • Writer
    • India Donaldson
  • Stars
    • Lily Collias
    • Sumaya Bouhbal
    • Valentine Black
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  • IMDb RATING
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    3.3K
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    • Director
      • India Donaldson
    • Writer
      • India Donaldson
    • Stars
      • Lily Collias
      • Sumaya Bouhbal
      • Valentine Black
    • 33User reviews
    • 71Critic reviews
    • 87Metascore
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    • Awards
      • 6 wins & 22 nominations total

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    Lily Collias
    Lily Collias
    • Sam
    Sumaya Bouhbal
    Sumaya Bouhbal
    • Jessie
    Valentine Black
    • Val
    Diana Irvine
    Diana Irvine
    • Casey
    James Le Gros
    James Le Gros
    • Chris
    Danny McCarthy
    Danny McCarthy
    • Matt
    Julian Grady
    • Dylan
    Becca Morrin
    • Restaurant Server
    • (as Becca Brooks Morrin)
    Sarah Wilson
    • Janie
    Samuel Lanier
    • Zach
    • (as Sam Lanier)
    Eric Yates
    • Andy
    Peter McNally
    Peter McNally
    • Jake
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      • India Donaldson
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      • India Donaldson
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    9Pequod88

    Quietly Captivating

    India Donaldson's first feature film, Good One, is a quiet, slow-paced story that trusts viewers to pay attention and recognize important moments, even when it may seem that nothing much is happening. Good One marks the arrival of two notable talents: Donaldson and Lily Colias. Eschewing the typical storytelling signposts and noisy confrontations, the film unspools slowly, with cinematographer Wilson Cameron's keen eye making nature a vital part of the tale.

    The dynamic of a planned three-day hike is markedly altered when Matt's son bails at the last minute, leaving 17-year-old Sam to function as a third wheel with her father Chris (a spot-on James Le Gros) and Matt (Danny McCarthy), two middle-aged men in need of more respite than a hike can provide, even with Sam there to reveal wisdom and poise beyond her years.

    Not since Jennifer Lawrence's star turn in Debra Granik's Winter's Bone has a young actor so vividly presented a fresh talent to keep an eye on. We will be seeing a lot more of Colias. Le Gros brings a quiet complexity to Chris, bringing to mind his stellar work in Kelly Reichardt's Certain Women. Like Reichardt, Donaldson's film is not flashy, subtly calling attention to the faces of the cast and glory of nature. While Celia Hollander's quality score at times underscores the mood, it is occasionally intrusive when natural sounds and silence would have better served the moment.

    Once the small, big thing happens, Matt does not speak again, nor is he seen in the same frame as Sam. Only very briefly is he on screen with Chris. The shots and framing are no accident. The implications for the trio's relationships going forward are suggested with delicacy. The visual storytelling makes for a sumptuous treat on a small scale. For a film in which "very little happens," the events of the hike change all three.
    7ealcalay

    Lilly Collias is a star

    A remarkable new actress has been born. Progressively preposterous, as it became that a 17-year old as special as Sam would go on a hiking trip with her father and his best friend, her acting will keep you watching until the end. Throughout the film, I kept thinking her face and expressions could belong to a precocious young French actress (think Léa Seydoux). Reading her biography, I found out her mother is French. I am certain we will see, and hear, more of Lilly Collias. Other than Collias, the two male leads, James LeGros and Danny Mc Carthy are very convincing in their roles. Both the camerawork and the writing are exceptional.
    8peter0969

    Chill and tender coming-of-age narrative

    Watched this at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival.

    Wow, 2024 Sundance really had lots of good movies this year because "Good One" really was one of my favorites from the festival. Filmmaker India Donaldson creates a strong debut project with good writing on the themes of generational differences, beautiful camerawork and good performances from the cast members.

    Donaldson really captures the essence of nature landscapes, hiking, and conversations between characters and life. The atmosphere, camerawork, and sound designs are relaxing and many of the dialogue moments felt nature and realistic. All of the performances are good and Lily Collias was amazing in her first performance.

    This movie really is like a good ASMR or vibe story like something made from Kelly Reichardt. Overall good movie.
    7baudachong

    Solid movie, many women will relate

    This is a movie worth seeing without being unforgettable. The lead actress portraits her role excellently and the story has a nice reflective pace. There are some attempts to give depth to the other two characters, the dad and his friend, however despite their efforts to sound deep and complex, their interactions end up being lame and basic, due to their limited mindsets and stereotypical 'manly' existential struggles that do not show a glimpse of real self-awareness.

    To all the reviews disliking the movie because it's 'too feminist' or negatively biased towards men, as a woman I would like to express that if you were one, you'd be very familiar with these dynamics since an even much earlier age than 17yo, no matter where/how you grew up. You'd be shocked to learn how often these weird interactions happen to all girls and women in the most random contexts, and from people you would never expect. I'm not saying all men are like this thankfully, but it's still too many. I hope this movie stimulates a real reflection on the normalisation of these dynamics in women's experiences.
    6CinemaSerf

    Good One

    I think maybe son "Dylan" (a fleeting appearance from Julian Grady) might have had the right idea when he decides to opt out of his dad's camping trip with his best friend and his daughter. Seems that "Matt" (Danny McCarthy) is having father-son issues amidst a divorce after he strayed with someone quite a bit younger. His travelling companions are lifelong buddy (James Le Gros) and teenage "Sammy" (Lily Collias) who have a more typical relationship. She has known "Matt" for years and for a while their trip, trekking through the beautiful Catskill mountains, seems to pass off amiably enough. They even meet some fellow travellers for some who has been where grandstanding; the tents seems to go up without any slapstick and there's a little teasing about the nature of her relationship with "Jessie". "Matt" however, begins to feel a bit melancholy though as he gradually beings to appreciate that his family is disintegrating and after a revealing conversation with "Sammy" and an even more revealing and wholly inadequate one she has with her father afterwards, it becomes pretty clear that she is not without her own problems and her father has quite a bit of growing up of his own to do. It's a very slowly paced drama this, with most of the dialogue delivered as naturally occurring conversation. That works to an extent as sentences are left unfinished and inferences are made using facial expressions, but what is missing here is any sense of development of these people. We are left to make too many assumptions which rather lets the thing down as the story heads to it's crunch moment. That rather comes out of the blue and seems contrived to make the very point the auteur wants to make despite it not really fitting the profile or behaviour of the characters we had hitherto been walking through the wilderness with. I suppose, without giving the game away, I just don't agree with the fundamental message that the latter stages of the film seem to be trying to convey here and so was ultimately a bit disappointed that what started off as an light-hearted, quite wittily scripted, observation of family became something a little subliminally sinister for the sake of it. It's a gorgeous film to watch and Collias delivers engagingly, too, but films like this risk fuelling a growing misconception of an opportunistic or even predatory male stereotype that most men simply won't accept and isn't actually true.

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      India Donaldson's feature film directorial debut.
    • Soundtracks
      Touching Souls
      Written by Kay Gardner

      Performed by Kay Gardner

      Courtesy of Sea Gnomes Music

      By Arrangement with Hildegard Publishing Company

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    • Release date
      • November 13, 2024 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • 露營悄悄話
    • Production companies
      • International Pigeon Production
      • Smudge Films
      • Tinygiant
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $352,135
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $27,846
      • Aug 11, 2024
    • Gross worldwide
      • $373,238
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      • 1h 29m(89 min)
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      • 2.00 : 1

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