Florence Pugh and Zach Braff’s A Good Person delivers shaky premise with good intention-LI-Z-Entertainment – Metro

Florence Pugh and Zach Braff adoringly crafted A Good Person (Picture: WireImage)

It’s her again! I honestly never thought I could have enough of Florence Pugh, but even I’d had my fill of Flo (for a while) following the full-on melodrama of A Good Person.

Adoringly crafted for Pugh by her writer/ director/ ex-boyfriend Zach Braff, this acting showcase casts her as Alison, a soon-to-be-bride, whose bright future is smashed to bits following a tragic car accident that leaves her addicted to Oxycontin. 

Enter wise old Morgan Freeman to help with her recovery (and for her to help with his).

Like her fellow Gen Z megastars Timothee Chalamet (Beautiful Boy) and Tom Holland (Cherry), Pugh here gets her crack at the opioid crisis movie which triggers an all-guns-blazing thespian performance. 

Less assured is the shakier premise of the script. Clearly it’s coming from a place of good intention. 

It’s a meaty and fairly compelling addiction drama about how all we can do is soldier on through our messy lives with hope, hard work and honesty. 

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Yet there’s no getting away from it being a story where Black lives are tragically lost yet the focus is on a white woman’s journey. 

Out today in cinemas and on Sky Cinema from April 28. 

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