That’s “unimaginable” within the sense of “too ludicrous to be believed,” not within the awestruck which means of the phrase. “The Good Mom” begins depressingly reasonable, as Marissa wakes up one morning on her sofa with a half-empty bottle on the espresso desk in entrance of her. Hungover and scowling—her default setting, because it seems—she drags herself into work, the place her son Toby (Jack Reynor) interrupts a employees assembly to convey Marissa some horrible information: Her different son, Michael, is lifeless.
It’s been months since Marissa final spoke to Michael, who alienated his household within the leadup to his loss of life by the use of his worsening heroin dependancy. It wasn’t the medicine that killed him, however a bullet from an unknown killer in a late-night drive-by capturing. Toby suspects Michael’s greatest good friend, Ducky (Hopper Penn), with whom Michael was concerned in shady dealings, pulled the set off. However Marissa intuits that there’s extra happening right here than a soured friendship and a drug deal gone awry.
So does Paige (Olivia Cooke), Michael’s girlfriend, who’s now pregnant and alone—apart from Marissa, who begrudgingly accepts Paige’s presence in her life after decking her within the jaw on the funeral. The tentative relationship between Marissa and Paige, neither of whom significantly like one another however are bonded by their love for Michael, is the movie’s most engrossing facet. It’s extra fascinating than their joint investigation into Michael’s loss of life, which sputters and spins earlier than shedding its momentum totally. By the point we discover out what actually occurred to him, “The Good Mom” has already moved on.
This occurs about an hour in, with the primary of a number of plot developments that set “The Good Mom” on a tawdry new path to an unsatisfying ending. It will be gauche to disclose them right here, after all, however they take the story from convincingly bleak to clichéd and ridiculous. These twists are laid atop the realistically textured setting that director Miles Joris-Peyrafitte works so exhausting to determine within the movie’s first two-thirds, invalidating it. Why trouble capturing drone footage of sooty freeway overpasses and hiring Larry Fessenden to play a grief counselor if you happen to’re going to desert actuality halfway by way of?
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