The Good House(2022)

Name: The Good House
Director: Maya Forbes
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: Sep 30, 2022
Cast: Rebecca Henderson

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Rated R for brief sexuality and language.
1h 44m
- Comedy
- Drama

Release Date: Sep 30, 2022 | Wide

Life for New England realtor Hildy Good begins to unravel when she hooks up with an old high school flame. Based on Ann Leary's 'The Good House.'

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Original Release | Sep 30, 2022

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Director & Top Cast

Maya Forbes
Director

Wallace Wolodarsky
Director

Rebecca Henderson
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Sound Mix: Dolby Digital

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Country of Origin: United States, India

Language: English

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Plot Summary

Sigourney Weaver and Kevin Kline play ex-flames who rekindle their romance, in this drama from directors Maya Forbes and Wallace Wolodarsky. "I need a good year." When Hildy (Sigourney Weaver) makes that pronouncement, she's talking about her sales prospects as a realtor. But there's also an unspoken acknowledgement that her best years just might be behind her. Bold, brash, and practiced in the ways of her affluent New England town, Hildy's barely controlled chaos is a bit too familiar to her friends and family. So is its fuel: booze.Veteran screenwriters Maya Forbes (who also directed Infinitely Polar Bear) and Wallace Wolodarsky adapt and direct Ann Leary's novel as a piercing observation of a woman capable of great charm, but always ready to sabotage her own success when the mood descends. Seeing the risk escalate, her family stages an intervention. It goes about as well as expected.Weaver is a pure pleasure to watch here, perfectly pitching Hildy's captivating side as well as her more vicious moments. A woman who proudly notes that her family has lived in Wendover for almost 300 years, she carries herself with regal bearing, ready to adopt new arrival Rebecca (Morena Baccarin) as a prize. But Hildy's mass of hurts and insecurities are never far from the surface. The only person who seems to see her fully is Frank (Kevin Kline, also appearing in TIFF selection The Starling), a grizzled old flame who earned his wealth with his own hands and may now be ready to take Hildy into his arms again. Wisely, Forbes and Wolodarsky allow us to bask in the bright glow of these two old pros at work.

Storyline

A native daughter whose family has lived there for three centuries, Hildy Good was once the most successful realtor in Wendover, MA, a quaint and now largely upper middle class coastal village, and one of the most successful small business owners on the North Shore, that was before among others Scott, her now out gay ex-husband, and their two young adult daughters, Tess and Emily, held an intervention that sent her to rehab for a drinking problem, something that Hildy does not admit that she had, especially in comparison to her long deceased mother. Coming out of rehab, Hildy drinks on the sly, she countering her now admitted drinking problem, which she doesn't see as much of a problem, a result of rehab, does not attend therapy or AA meetings, and is having financial problems in her real estate company being in a free fall in most business in town having been taken over by her former associate Wendy Heatherton, who stole her client list when Hildy was in rehab, although Hildy puts on a false front of not having any financial issues in she still largely offering financial support to Tess and Emily when they need it. In having sold her the house in which she and her young family live, Hildy develops a friendship with Rebecca McAllister, a lonely and needy woman new to town, that friendship for Hildy in Rebecca not only not judging her drinking, but partaking in it with her in their private time together. That neediness for Rebecca has resulted in her having an affair with married psychiatrist Peter Newbold, she once a patient of his. Peter has asked Hildy, who used to babysit him when he was a child, not to divulge that he has asked her possibly to sell his house if an out-of-town job comes through, Hildy taking from that that Peter's own marriage is in trouble. And despite her own troubles, Hildy offers her services to struggling Cassie and Patch Dwight to prepare their house for sale in they not having the funds to do so in all their attention, financial or otherwise, directed toward their autistic son, Jake Dwight. With the Dwights' house, Hildy asks another native son, Frank Getchell, owner of his own maintenance company, to assist despite Frankie being already stretched to the limit with work. In that process, Hildy contemplates starting something with Frankie, her high school crush, who may provide some stability that she needs in life. — Huggo

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The Good House(2022)

Current Showtimes

Director & Top Cast

Maya Forbes

Wallace Wolodarsky

Rebecca Henderson

Technical Specifications

Other Details

Summaries

Plot Summary

Storyline

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