All Good Things 2010

     This film is both a love story and murder mystery.  It is based on the most notorious unsolved murder case in New York history.  This original screenplay uses newly discovered facts, court records and speculation as the foundation for a story of family, obsession, love and loss. 

     The story involves David Marks.  He is son of a New York family that owns valuable 42nd Street real estate in the 1970s. The property at that time was rented to strip clubs, porno shops, massage parlors and so on. The family, wealthy and private, moved in the best circles and the nature of their holdings was not widely known.  Essentially, the family is making money from unsavory enterprises and their goal is to hide their shady dealings!!  They were still highly regarded because the type of people they rented to was unknown. 

     David Marks marries Katie McCarthy and she was a working-class student.  They move to Vermont to enjoy country life and they set up a health food store called All Good Things.  They return to New York after David is lured back by his powerful father Sanford Marks.  He tells David he is not giving Katie the lifestyle that she deserves?  5* (I really liked this movie)

     

Note:  Imdb 6.3* out of 10* with 355 reviews, popularity 1,700, Roger Ebert  3 1/2*, Rotten Tomatoes 35% with 98 reviews 37% audience with 25,000+ reviews, Metacritic 57 with 27 critic reviews 7.7 with 104 user scores, RollingStone Magazine 3* out of 4* Peter Travers.

     

101 min, Crime directed by Andrew Jarecki, written by Marcus Hinchey and Marc Smerling with Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Dunst, Frank Langella, Lily Rabe, Philip Baker Hall, Michael Esper, Diane Venora, Nick Offerman, Kristen Wiig, Stephen Kunken, John Cullum, Maggie Kiley, Liz Stauber.

Special Note:  Ryan Gosling felt so bad about a scene that he had to pull Kirsten Dunst’s hair that he sent her flowers the day after!!  Andrew Jarecki said that he wanted to make a movie that real-life counterpart Robert Durst could watch and have an emotional reaction to.  Upon seeing the movie, Durst contacted Jarecki and he wanted to give his view of the events as depicted.  The interviews with the normally reclusive Durst provided the basis for the documentary miniseries The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst (2015).  The film gained widespread attention for contributing to Durst's arrest in relation to the murder of Susan Berman (shown as Deborah Lehrman in this fictionalized film.