Good One

Cinephile deep dive

The take

India Donaldson directs. Wilson Cameron behind the camera. Celia Hollander scores. Graham Mason cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

• 190 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
• 2Released 2 years ago.
• 3Directed by India Donaldson, shot by Wilson Cameron. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
• 4Original score by Celia Hollander. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
• 5Editor Graham Mason shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
• 6Lily Collias and James Le Gros and Danny McCarthy carry the top of the cast.
• 7IMDB entry: tt30319516 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
• 8Only 76 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
• 9Classified under 12 themes, including "regret", "camping", "hiking", "coming of age".

The technical file

Cinematography

Wilson Cameron

Original score

Celia Hollander

Editing

Graham Mason

Production design

Becca Brooks Morrin

Costume design

Nell Simon

Makeup / hair

Erica Pearce

Sound

Eli Cohn

Runtime

90 min · 1h 30m

Aspect ratio (typical)

1.37:1 (Academy)

Status

Released

Box office

$165,620

Original language

EN

Certification (US)

R

IMDB

Good One (2024) ↗

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Trailers & featurettes

Watch the pieces

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  Official Trailer

  Trailer · Official
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  India Donaldson, Lily Collias, and James Le Gros on Good One

  Featurette · Official
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  Good One Intro by Rajendra Roy

  Featurette · Official

Community reviews

What people are saying

• CinemaSerf2025-05-18
  ★ 6/10

  I think maybe son “Dylan” (a fleeting appearance from Julian Grady) might have had the right idea when he decides to opt out of his dad’s camping trip with his best friend and his daughter. Seems that “Matt” (Danny McCarthy) is having father-son issues amidst a divorce after he strayed with someone quite a bit younger. His travelling companions are lifelong buddy (James Le Gros) and teenage “Sammy” (Lily Collias) who have a more typical relationship. She has known “Matt” for years and for a while their trip, trekking through the beautiful Catskill mountains, seems to pass off amiably enough. They even meet some fellow travellers for some who has been where grandstanding; the tents seems to go up without any slapstick and there’s a little teasing about the nature of her relationship with “Jessie”. “Matt” however, begins to feel a bit melancholy though as he gradually beings to appreciate that his family is disintegrating and after a revealing conversation with “Sammy” and an even more revealing and wholly inadequate one she has with her father afterwards, it becomes pretty clear that she is not without her own problems and her father has quite a bit of growing up of his own to do. It’s a very slowly paced drama this, with most of the dialogue delivered as naturally occurring conversation. That works to an extent as sentences are left unfinished and inferences are made using facial expressions, but what is missing here is any sense of development of these people. We are left to make too many assumptions which rather lets the thing down as the story heads to it’s crunch moment. That rather comes out of the blue and seems contrived to make the very point the auteur wants to make despite it not really fitting the profile or behaviour of the characters we had hitherto been walking through the wilderness with. I suppose, without giving the game away, I just don’t agree with the fundamental message that the latter stages of the film seem to be trying to convey here and so was ultimately a bit disappointed that what started off as an light-hearted, quite wittily scripted, observation of family became something a little subliminally sinister for the sake of it. It’s a gorgeous film to watch and Collias delivers engagingly, too, but films like this risk fuelling a growing misconception of an opportunistic or even predatory male stereotype that most men simply won’t accept and isn’t actually true.

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Production companies

Who made it

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  International Pigeon Production

  US

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  Smudge Films

  US

• 

  Tinygiant

  US

• BA

  Baird Street Pictures

  US

Key crew

• ProducerWilson Cameron
• EditorGraham Mason
• Costume DesignNell Simon
• Production DesignBecca Brooks Morrin
• ProducerIndia Donaldson
• Executive ProducerSara Eolin
• Executive ProducerJaques Black
• Executive ProducerVeronica Diaferia
• Executive ProducerJames Le Gros
• Executive ProducerLethe Black
• Executive ProducerRoger Donaldson
• Executive ProducerRiccardo Maddalosso
• Executive ProducerNeil Champagne
• First Assistant CameraWill Colacito
• Production Sound MixerMaxwell di Paolo
• Associate ProducerSabina Friedman-Seitz
• Art DirectionNicole Boettcher
• "B" Camera OperatorAlex Bliss
• Key GripAutumn Stevens
• Line ProducerOlivia Mastrangelo
• Set DecorationGordon Landenberger
• Digital Imaging TechnicianWill Kempner
• GafferCaiya Sanchez-Strauss
• Sound Effects EditorJack Sasner

Themes & keywords

What it's about, really

• regret
• camping
• hiking
• coming of age
• female protagonist
• divorcee
• campfire
• lgbt
• divorced father
• woman director
• father daughter relationship
• independent film

Release history · US

When it landed

• Premiere2024-01-21· Sundance Film Festival
• Premiere2024-04-04· New Directors/New Films
• Premiere2024-04-12· Milwaukee Film Festival
• Premiere2024-06-13· Provincetown International Film Festival
• Premiere2024-06-24· Frameline: The San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival
• Premiere2024-06-22· Oak Cliff Film Festival
• Premiere2024-04-14· PFF SpringFest
• Premiere2024-04-07· Los Angeles Festival of Movies
• Premiere2024-04-10· Wisconsin Film Festival
• Premiere2024-05-08· Chicago Critics Film Festival

Also known as

International titles

• همین خوبهIR
• عالی بودIR
• بد نبودIR
• Dobra córkaPL