{"id":631067,"date":"2024-08-16T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-nick-jonas-leads-an-awkward-indie-drama\/"},"modified":"2024-08-16T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T01:00:00","slug":"watch-nick-jonas-leads-an-awkward-indie-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-nick-jonas-leads-an-awkward-indie-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Nick Jonas Leads an Awkward Indie Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a35ffcdb9963\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a35ffcdb9963\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-nick-jonas-leads-an-awkward-indie-drama\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Nick_Jonas_Leads_an_Awkward_Indie_Drama%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online Nick Jonas Leads an Awkward Indie Drama&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-nick-jonas-leads-an-awkward-indie-drama\/#%E2%80%9CNick_Jonas_Leads_an_Awkward_Indie_Drama%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Nick Jonas Leads an Awkward Indie Drama&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Nick_Jonas_Leads_an_Awkward_Indie_Drama%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online Nick Jonas Leads an Awkward Indie Drama&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CNick_Jonas_Leads_an_Awkward_Indie_Drama%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Nick Jonas Leads an Awkward Indie Drama&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    A reserved man with some unresolved childhood issues returns to his hometown for the funeral of a parent. This isn\u2019t only the premise at the heart of Robert Schwartzman\u2019s well-meaning yet timid feature \u201cThe Good Half,\u201d but also a recurrent foundation on which many a melancholic American dramedy, from \u201cElizabethtown\u201d to \u201cGarden State\u201d to \u201cThis Is Where I Leave You.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Pointing out this thematic repetition isn\u2019t necessarily to knock down one of cinema\u2019s favorite topics \u2014 after all, familial grief is among the most shared and relatable of human aches. And what are <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a>, if not an echo of those experiences? But you still go into a film like \u201cThe Good Half\u201d hoping that it has something of its own to say on the pains of bereavement. Instead, it just lands like a medley of similar (often, better) films that came before it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    \u201cNo one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear,\u201d C.S. Lewis wrote in his 1961 book of reflections, \u201cA Grief Observed.\u201d This quote is spelled out nowhere in \u201cThe Good Half,\u201d but the story more or less begins on that note of fear. The film starts with the young Renn Wheeland (Mason Cufari) and his idiosyncratic mother Lily (Elisabeth Shue, doing her best in an underwritten part) as she tries to comfort her son, whom she had just forgotten at a shopping mall. In the parking lot, she promises that she will never leave him in a store again. But Renn demands further reassurance. \u201cYou\u2019ll never leave me? A hundred percent?,\u201d he anxiously wants to know, unknowingly asking his mom to make a lifelong promise she knows she won\u2019t be able to keep.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Fast-forward to a couple of decades later, and the older Renn (a detached and low-energy Nick Jonas) at long last receives the call that he\u2019s feared his entire life, from his weeping sister: \u201cShe\u2019s gone.\u201d As Renn moves his way through the airport to head back home to Cleveland, a series of voicemails effectively inform audiences of where things stand for him. He\u2019s an L.A.-based writer with a bill-paying job that he does not like, but is somehow getting a promotion at. His sister Leigh (a terrific Brittany Snow, underserved by the diffident film) could use his help with all that\u2019s been going on. His dad Darren (Matt Walsh) got his own baggage, and so on. On the plane ride, the spirited Zoey (the endearing Alexandra Shipp of \u201cBarbie\u201d) \u2014 conveniently, a therapist \u2014 enters the picture much like Kirsten Dunst does in \u201cElizabethtown.\u201d With a sharp sense of humor and a knack for quoting \u201880s and \u201890s Hollywood action one-liners, Zoey often infuses the film with a sunny disposition. But Shipp\u2019s part nonetheless feels like a parade of cliches without much depth. Still, her character proves to be a welcome presence, lending Renn her company as he navigates his tricky situation with his family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The drama between kin seems thoroughly commonplace, too. Apart from Renn\u2019s overbearing and overburdened sibling Leigh \u2014 a character that Snow portrays with real bite \u2014 there is Lily\u2019s irksome second husband Rick (David Arquette), along with various self-conscious moments at funeral parlors, heart-to-hearts at local watering holes and so on. Schwartzman and screenwriter Brett Ryland braid these present-day scenes with flashbacks in an attempt to deepen our understanding of Lily. But despite Shue\u2019s best efforts, the film doesn\u2019t really convey what makes her distinctive. The brief journeys back in time disclose the progression of Lily\u2019s terminal illness and often reiterate that she had amusing quirks as a harmless kleptomaniac (sometimes pocketing objects like a teaspoon from a restaurant). But in its inelegant efforts to unearth situational humor out of those clumsy memories, the film unfortunately sidesteps real complexities and character revelations in the process. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    A Coppola descendant like his brother, Jason, and a multi-hyphenate film and music personality (best known as the lead vocalist of Rooney), Schwartzman directs \u201cThe Good Half\u201d in a bland straightforward manner, without a discernible style of his own. Jonas, meanwhile, doesn\u2019t seem to have the range of dramatic muscles to pull off the level of understated vulnerability his character demands. In that, he is often forgettable next to the likes of Shipp and Snow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Still, \u201cThe Good Half\u201d reclaims attention every now and then with its occasional humor and grace notes around its side characters. A scene between Renn and a clothing store employee (Ryan Bergara) who fondly remembers how Lily once looked out for him is especially one of those moments that makes you lament the richer film that this might have been. But what we eventually get with \u201cThe Good Half\u201d doesn\u2019t even feel half good.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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