Rent A Good Person (2023)

Drama with terrific acting - A Good Person review by AB

This is a film about a young woman, played by Florence Pugh, involved in a serious traumatic incident. It ruins her life. She descends into addiction hell. The understanding and friendship offered by the father of her previous fiance begins her path to redemption.

With lesser actors than Florence Pugh and Morgan Freeman this could have been a fairly run-of-the mill melodrama, but with these two, especially Pugh, the film is elevated into a tremendous and moving drama.

Flawed But Entertaining Drama - A Good Person review by GI

Despite the sheer implausibility of this story and the slightly over written characters this is an entertaining drama about redemption and offering a story of what happens when a good person does a bad thing. Florence Pugh as usual lifts the narrative and gives a great performance even when the story goes a little too far in what its trying to achieve. She plays Allison, a gifted, popular, beautiful young woman engaged and beloved by family and friends. A moment of carelessness results in her causing a car accident in which tragedy strikes and her life descends into a hellhole of grief and opioid addiction. Her path to recovery comes from a very unexpected person. Co starring Morgan Freeman this is a film that has some fierce critics mainly for the too good to be believable plot and characters and indeed some of their actions here test the bounds of credibility but by the end I found it too be a very watchable film that is quite satisfying.