Review: Florence Pugh is heartbreaking in Zach Braff’s less-than-subtle ‘A Good Person’

Writer-director Zach Braff’s affecting, if blandly titled, family drama, “A Good Person,” takes a largely convincing and compelling look at such big topics as grief, drug addiction, parental bonds, redemption and fate. Daniel, who keeps a whiskey bottle stashed away for the occasional look-but-don’t-touch, takes solace in his longtime model train set, a lovingly crafted re-creation of his town that allows him to reshape several key life events as he wishes they’d been. And they do when Allison, at the end of her opioid-dependent rope, gives in to visiting a local Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, unaware that it’s the same one Daniel attends. “A Good Person” isn’t an easy ride but, like such disparate, if similarly themed, movies as “Rabbit Hole,” “Waves” and “Four Good Days,” it’s a haunting slice of real life that will make you think, feel and maybe even want to reach out to your loved ones.