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The Good House is a 2021 American comedy-drama film directed by Maya Forbes and Wally Wolodarsky, who wrote the screenplay with Thomas Bezucha.[3] It is based on the novel of the same name by Ann Leary.

The Good House
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Maya Forbes Wally Wolodarsky
Screenplay by	Thomas Bezucha Maya Forbes Wally Wolodarsky
Based on	The Good House by Ann Leary
Produced by	Jane Rosenthal Berry Welsh Aaron Ryder
Starring	Sigourney Weaver Kevin Kline Morena Baccarin Rob Delaney
Cinematography	Andrei Bowden Schwartz
Edited by	Catherine Haight
Music by	Theodore Shapiro
Production companies	DreamWorks Pictures Participant Reliance Entertainment FilmNation Entertainment Faliro House
Distributed by	Lionsgate Roadside Attractions
Release dates	September 15, 2021 (2021-09-15) (TIFF) September 30, 2022 (2022-09-30) (United States)
Running time	114 minutes[1]
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$2.2 million[2]

Plot

Hildy Good, once the most prosperous realtor in Wendover, has fallen on hard times following her divorce and family's insistence she go to rehab for alcoholism. Her former assistant, Wendy, also stole her clients while she was in rehab, adding to her problems. Hildy attempts to aid a local family with an autistic child sell their home so they can move and enroll him in a special school by getting her former boyfriend, Frank, to renovate their home. She renews her relationship with Frank, but the home sale falls through and she finds out her former clients yet again are stolen by Wendy.

Hildy befriends a woman, Rebecca, who she sold a house to her and her husband and is then drawn into her life. She discovers Rebecca and the local psychologist, Peter, are having an affair, but she promises she won't reveal their secret. Hildy continues to drink in solitude instead of in the open, justifying her drinking by saying she just needs to take the edge off and that she doesn't "need" to drink. Peter approaches her about selling his home, but says it's not set in stone and not to speak of it, Hildy assumes this means he will be asking for a divorce. Hildy decides not to drink anymore after one night when she is cornered in the cellar and drinks two bottles of wine. She avoids alcohol for quite a while and then finds out that Peter is selling his home and using Wendy instead of her. She confronts him and says he will destroy her career if he gives this sale to Wendy, so she threatens him with the information she has about him and Rebecca. Hildy is able to sell his home, then uses that sale to snag the large estate the Santorelli brothers built in Wendover. She celebrates with them, taking her first sip of alcohol in a while and then can't stop. She drives drunk to Frank's house, telling him they need to celebrate and Frank takes her keys and offers to drive her home. She gets angry and refuses, saying she'd rather walk.

The next day, she is woken by Frank and he shows her the car in her driveway with a damaged front end; she had walked back to his house after getting the spare key and driven home. The autistic son of her friends is missing and they fear the worst. Frank hides her car, then leaves to help with the search while Hildy goes to the kitchen to take a drink when Peter walks in dripping wet. They have a conversation where he says the missing boy is fine, but she needs to get control. Suddenly, he disappears and Hildy hears her oldest daughter in the house, so they go to help with the search. The police find a body in the water, but it ends up being Peter, meaning Hildy had hallucinated her talk with him and she collapses, begging for help. Jake, the autistic boy, is found safe by Rebecca and is led home. Hildy willingly goes into rehab this time and accepts that she does have a drinking problem and the movie closes with her and Frank sailing on the boat he made for her when they were young.

Cast

• Sigourney Weaver as Hildy Good
• Kevin Kline as Frank Getchell
• Morena Baccarin as Rebecca McAllister
• Rob Delaney as Peter Newbold
• Beverly D'Angelo as Mamie Lang
• David Rasche as Scott Good
• Rebecca Henderson as Tess Good
• Molly Brown as Emily Good
• Kelly AuCoin as Brian McAllister
• Kathryn Erbe as Wendy Heatherton

Production

It was announced in September 2019 that filming had begun in Canada on the project. Maya Forbes and Wally Wolodarsky were directing the film in addition to writing the screenplay, and Sigourney Weaver and Kevin Kline cast to star.[4] Morena Baccarin, Rob Delaney, Beverly D'Angelo, David Rasche, and Rebecca Henderson were added to the cast the next month.[5] In November 2019, Kelly AuCoin and Kathryn Erbe joined the cast of the film.[6]

Release

The film had its world premiere at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival in September 2021.[7] Originally, Universal Pictures was set to distribute in the United States and some other international territories, but the film's U.S. rights were later said to be on sale.[8][9] In June 2022, days before the film's premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 18, Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions acquired North American rights to the film. Following the film's premiere at Tribeca, it was released on September 30 the same year.[10]

Reception

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, The Good House holds an approval rating of 71% based on 73 reviews with an average of 6/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "The Good House creaks in spots, but with Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver providing load-bearing performances, it's far from a fixer-upper."[11] On Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, the films has a score of 62 out 100 based on 16 reviews, indicating "generally positive reviews".[12]

References

External links

• The Good House at IMDb

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