Good One (2024)
Director: India Donaldson Run Time: 89 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2024
Starring: Danny McCarthy, Diana Irvine, James Le Gros, Lily Collias, Sumaya Bouhbal
Country: United States
Language: English
About the film:
Official Selection, 2024 Sundance Film Festival and 2024 Cannes Film Festival.
Seventeen-year-old high school senior Sam has agreed to join her father Chris and his longtime buddy Matt 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.
“It is humanity, with all of its beauties and disappointments, as most of us experience it. And it’s one that will likely stay with you for some time.”
—Lindsey Bahr, Associated Press
About the filmmaker:
India Donaldson is an American screenwriter and director. Donaldson had been exposed to the film industry from a young age through her father (Roger Donaldson, director of Dante’s Peak [1997] and The World’s Fastest Indian [2005]), but did not view herself as the ‘director type’ until her mid-thirties, when she released her debut short film Medusa (2018). She followed this up with two other short films, Hannahs (2019)—which screened at many well-known film festivals and earned numerous nominations—and If Found (2021). Donaldson’s debut feature film, Good One (2024), premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, where it was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize.
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