All Good Things

Director: Andrew Jarecki Andrew Jarecki

Overview

The wealthy heir to a prominent real-estate magnate becomes caught up in a high-profile murder investigation in this thriller inspired by the real-life case of Robert Durst, who was suspected of murdering his wife, Kathie, after she vanished without a trace in 1982. Warned by his father (Frank Langella) that the common girl (Kirsten Dunst) he loves will never be accepted into high society, the young scion (Ryan Gosling) throws caution to the wind and marries her regardless. Later, when the girl disappears and politics enter the picture, a suspicious series of deaths leave a haunted cop convinced that the truth is closer than anyone realizes. Philip Baker Hall and Jeffrey Dean Morgan star in this period mystery written by Marc Smerling and Marcus Hinchey, and directed by Andrew Jarecki (Capturing the Friedmans).

Product Details

Release Date:	03/29/2011
UPC:	0876964003667
Original Release:	2010
Rating:	R
Source:	Magnolia Home Ent
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:41:00
Sales rank:	15,691

Special Features

Closed Caption; Deleted scenes ; All Good Things: Truth in fiction; Back in time: Researching the original story; Unraveling the story: Interview with Andrew Jarecki; Wrinkles in time: Ryan Ages ; Commentary with Andrew Jarecki (director/producer) and Robert Durst ; Commentary with Andrew Jarecki (director/producer), Marcus Hinchey (co-writer/co-producer) and Marc Smerling (co-writer/prducer)

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Ryan Gosling	David Marks
Kirsten Dunst	Katie Marks
Frank Langella	Sanford Marks
Lily Rabe	Deborah Lehrman
Philip Baker Hall	Malvern Bump
Diane Verona	Janice Rizzo
Michael Esper	Daniel Marks
Nick Offerman	Jim McCarthy
Kristen Wiig	Lauren Fleck
Stephen Kunken	Todd Fleck
John Cullum	Richard Panatierre
Maggie Kiley	Mary McCarthy
Liz Stauber	Sharon McCarthy
Marion McCorry	Ann McCarthy
Mia Dillon	Katie's Aunt
Tom Kemp	Katie's Uncle
Trini Alvarado	Sarah Davis
Tom Riis Farrell	Barry Davis
Bruce Norris	Brian Callender
Francie Swift	Kelly Callender
David Margulies	Mayor
Glenn Fleshler	Sidney Greenhaus
Stephen Singer	Solly Sachs
Francis Guinan	Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Ellen Sexton	Moynihan's Wife
William Jackson Harper	Moynihan's Assistant
Ashlie Atkinson	Bonnie Felder
Pamela Tyson	Lula Baxter,Lula Baxter
Donna Bullock	Divorce Attorney
Julie Moran	Herself
Diane Kagan	Scream Therapist
Socorro Santiago	Nurse
Barbara Ann Davison	Woman at Baby Shower
Zabryna Guevara	Waitress
Lanny Flaherty	Rooming House Landlord
Robert Clohessy	Building Superintendent
Lazaro Perez	Building Elevator Operator
Michelle Hurst	Newscaster
Craig Walker	Assistant District Attorney
Lola Pashalinski	Woman at Luxor
Jerry Grayson	Man at Luxor
Anthony Torn	Theater Manager
Zoe Lister-Jones	Press Conference Reporter
Tristan Comeau	Young David
Amelia Martin	David's Mother
Matthew Floyd Miller	Young Sanford
Peter Becerra	Officer at Search
Mary A. Kelly	Vermont Realtor
Jeong Kim	Waiter at Disco
Andy Tsay	Waiter
Ruel Jusi	Butler
Rob Simonsen	Composer
Diane Venora	Actor

Technical Credits

Marcus Hinchey

Marc Smerling

Andrew Jarecki	Director,Producer
Marcus Hinchey	Screenwriter
Marc Smerling	Screenwriter,Producer
Michael London	Producer
Bruna Papandrea	Producer
Janice Williams	Executive Producer
Barbara A. Hall	Executive Producer,Executive Producer
Bob Weinstein	Executive Producer,Executive Producer
Michelle Krumm	Executive Producer
Douglas Aibel	Casting
Brian Smyj	Stunts
Mary A. Kelly	Script Supervisor
Kurt Rimmel	Key Grip
Karen Vassar	Sound/Sound Designer
Tim Walston	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

The old saying goes that a movie is as good as its villain, and that sentiment applies even more than usual to true-crime docudramas. By casting Ryan Gosling as the profoundly disturbed scion of a New York real-estate tycoon, director Andrew Jarecki makes All Good Things -- his thinly veiled retelling of the infamous Robert Durst case -- into one of the better examples of the genre. As the film opens, David Marks (Gosling), a seemingly sweet, slightly awkward young man visits Katie (Kirsten Dunst), one of the tenants in a building owned by his father's company, when she complains of a leaky faucet. They soon marry, and build an organic food shop. However, David's insistent father (Frank Langella) demands he join the family business, and soon his dad's threats to cut David off financially -- as well as his not-so-subtle hints that Katie will leave him unless he starts making serious money -- force David to capitulate. Saying much more about the bizarre events that follow from this ill-fated decision -- like David's eventual foray into cross-dressing, and pretending to be mute -- would rob viewers of the opportunity to appreciate Gosling's superb work in the film. David's slow descent into psychopathic madness grows more chilling with every scene, in part because he makes us dismiss the early warning signs of his latent maniacal tendencies as little more than the garden-variety troubles of anyone raised in wealth who lost their mother at a young age; his early insistence that he doesn't ever want to have kids seems to come from a place of neediness that we eventually discover is bottomless. But as David's outrageous, manipulative behavior grows more and more frightening, Gosling plays the character even more controlled and internal. David is slowly imploding, and the result for viewers is a gradual increase in tension that never really gets released. All Good Things isn't a pleasurable film to experience, but it offers an uncanny evocation of a narcissistic sociopath who doesn't come at us with the charm and sophistication that the typical screen bad guy has. That makes the movie worth seeking out for true-crime buffs, as well as anyone who just likes being profoundly scared by how horrible some people can be.