Synopsis
After breaking up with her boyfriend, Lillian moves in with married couple Julia and Don only to overhear them arguing in the night. The front door slams as Don moves out, and the following days sees Lillian, selfish and irresponsible, having to earn her keep by cooking for Julia, a reclusive, distrustful writer who rarely emerges from her room. Though communicating largely through notes, the odd couple gradually forge a bond and help one another to negotiate the foibles, phobias and obstacles that have long hindered their happiness.
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Cast
- Grace Van PattenLillian
- Emily MortimerJulia Price
- Norbert Leo ButzNeil
- Ebon Moss-BachrachDon
- Timm SharpGeorge
- John EarlySol
- Gary RichardsonNate
- Dola RashadLaura
- Mary HollandPauline
- Zadie SmithSelf
Recommendations
- 83
The Playlist
Gentle but sharply observed, Good Posture is an uncommon cinematic look at an intergenerational female relationship. - 80
The Observer (UK)
Wells’s bracingly spiky writing vividly draws both the characters and the connections between them. - 80
The Guardian
Wells’s coolly indirect way with dialogue prevents the movie becoming insufferable in the way that it might have done in other hands. It is like a short story that insouciantly signs off before you’ve quite decided what it means. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
A finding-yourself dramedy grounded in a sense of place that's socioeconomic as much as geographical, the warm-hearted film ... is an understated but assured debut. - 70
Variety
[A] roughly drafted feature debut that manages to be just affable enough. - 67
IndieWire
More of a snack than a fulfilling meal, Good Posture is too scattershot to make good on the full potential of its protagonist. - 60
Empire
It’s a small, lightweight picture but Good Posture is alive to the messy realities of becoming a grown-assed adult, becoming more charming and involving as it goes on. It also suggests a bright future for writer-director Dolly Wells. - 60
The Telegraph
The 22-year-old Van Patten is a more than capable solo lead: the breakout star of Noah Baumbach’s The Meyerowitz Stories, she has an invaluable knack for making her characters’ worst traits their most compelling features.
