A Good Person (2023) review

Pharmaceutical representative Allison (Florence Pugh), engaged to her true love Nathan (Chinaza Uche), gets into an automobile accident killing her passengers and then (ironically) becomes addicted to OxyContin - while on her long path to recovery, she reconnects with the man who would have been her father-in-law Daniel (Morgan Freeman) and is struggling to raise his troublesome granddaughter Ryan (Celeste O'Connor) alone.  The audience never learns a whole lot about those who died in the crash, so what's left is cheap sentimentality - and lazy psychology - as Flo is asked to carry the entire movie and go through all the emotions: she begs for drugs, rolls around on the floor and constantly appears like she woke up in a ditch ... and then there's that terrible conclusion (which involves Apple's Find My Phone app and Freeman drunk and packing a pistol).  Braff is too much the jokester to truly relate to the subject matter, and the wall-to-wall pop songs suggest he's nothing more than an off-brand Cameron Crowe ... maybe he should just stick to getting his tongue stuck to a frozen pole in a T-Mobile ad.