All Good Things

Theatrical Release Date: 2010 12 03 (USA - Limited)

UPC: 876964003667

Studio: Magnolia

MPAA Rating: R   Contains:[Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Drug Content]

Summary: 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). ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Category: Mystery

Features: cc
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)

All Good Things

Format: DVD

Release Date: 03/29/2011

Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Alternate Wide Screen

Audio: DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1

Runtime: 101 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English

Subtitles: Spanish

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Disc #1 -- All Good Things
1. For the Record [12:16]
2. Isn't That Great [6:22]
3. The Marks Organization [7:28]
4. Your Past [9:38]
5. Gotta Make a Stop [8:46]
6. It's So Quiet Here [7:36]
7. Hello Mrs. Marks [8:59]
8. The Kennel [11:31]
9. The Year 2000 [4:10]
10. Leave a Message [6:06]
11. Malvern Evicted [5:38]
12. End Credits [7:51]

Perry Seibert

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. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Michael London  Producer 
Bob Weinstein  Executive Producer 
Harvey Weinstein  Executive Producer 
Bruna Papandrea  Producer 
Janice Williams  Executive Producer 
Marc Smerling  Producer 
Marc Smerling  Screenwriter 
Andrew Jarecki  Director 
Andrew Jarecki  Producer 
Rob Simonsen  Composer (Music Score) 
Barbara Hall  Executive Producer 
Michelle Krumm  Executive Producer 
Marcus Hinchey  Screenwriter 
Ryan Gosling  Actor 
Kirsten Dunst  Actor 
Frank Langella  Actor 
Lily Rabe  Actor 
Philip Baker Hall  Actor 
Mia Dillon  Actor 
Michael Esper  Actor 
Diane Venora  Actor 
Tom Riis Farrell  Actor 
Nick Offerman  Actor 
Kristen Wiig  Actor 
Stephen Kunken  Actor 
John Cullum  Actor 
Maggie Kiley  Actor 
Liz Stauber  Actor 
Marion McCorry  Actor 
Tom Kemp  Actor 
Trini Alvarado  Actor 
Bruce Norris  Actor 
Francie Swift  Actor 
David Margulies  Actor 
Glenn Fleshler  Actor 
Stephen Singer  Actor 
Francis Guinan  Actor 
Ellen Sexton  Actor 
William Jackson Harper  Actor 
Ashlie Atkinson  Actor 
Donna Bullock  Actor 
Pamela Tyson  Actor 
Julie Moran  Actor 

Country: USA