Metrograph Pictures Dates India Donaldson’s Sundance Drama ‘Good One’ For August

Matt Grobar

17 April 2024 at 12:30 pm·2-min read

EXCLUSIVE: Metrograph Pictures announced on Wednesday that Good One — the first feature from writer-director India Donaldson, which premiered to rave reviews at this year’s Sundance Film Festival — will open in NY/LA on August 9 and expand nationwide in the following weeks.

That weekend, it will be up against Neon’s horror pic Cuckoo starring Hunter Schafer, Amazon MGM’s boxing drama The Fire Inside starring Brian Tyree Henry, Sony’s It Ends With Us, Lionsgate’s Borderlands, and M. Night Shyamalan’s Warner Bros thriller Trap.

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The first title acquired by Metrograph since its recent expansion into theatrical releases under the leadership of former A24 exec David Laub, Good One watches as 17-year-old Sam (newcomer Lily Collias) embarks on a three-day backpacking trip in the Catskills with her dad, Chris (James Le Gros) and his oldest friend, Matt (Danny McCarthy). As the two men quickly settle into a gently quarrelsome brotherly dynamic, airing long-held grievances, Sam, wise beyond her years, attempts to mediate. But when lines are crossed and Sam’s trust is betrayed, tensions reach a fever pitch, as Sam struggles with her dad’s emotional limitations and experiences the universal moment when the parental bond is tested.

Coming off of screenings to sold-out crowds at New Directors/New Films in New York and the LA Festival of Movies, Good One will next screen in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight. Pic’s producers included Diana Irvine, Graham Mason, Donaldson and Wilson Cameron. Exec producers are Sarah Winshall of Smudge Films and Neil Champagne, Veronica Diaferia, and Sara Eolin of Tinygiant.

Visit Films recently acquired international rights to the project.

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