Sam (Lily Collias) embarks on a three-day backpacking trip in the Catskills with her dad, Chris (Le Gros) and his oldest friend, Matt (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.
“In its lived-in quality and gathering churn, Good One is a dream of an indie, from the craft in every frame to the humour, epiphanies and mysteries that gird its portraiture.”
– Los Angeles Times
“Good One is, among its infinite attributes, an ode to a style of filmmaking that appears to be humble yet still manages to be devastating and humanistic to its very core.”
– Rolling Stone