Such Good People

Seriously?!? Did no-one notice...? Cast, crew, focus groups?

From the opening credits...this is a 98 minute derailment - culminating in a grotesque and catastrophic train-wreck...with no survivors! Here endeth a few careers.

The premise: Cheesy gay couple house-sit their dream home, the owners are murdered, they find a room stuffed full of cash, they give it to a porpoise charity, they take it back, they buy the dream-house, there's an evil half-sister, a priceless antiquity, a few dogs and some orphans in Bhutan...

David Michael Barrett could not write comedy if his life depended upon it - writer/producer, a lethal - and, usually fatal - combination! This an agonising on-screen suicide.

Now, with such dire material - it would take a particularly gifted director to pull anything worthwhile from the wreckage...Stewart Wade is not that director.

There are moments where - it seems - he hadn't a clue what to do...the party scene is a prime example - limpingly lame with a Buddhist performance piece! Ouch! The ransom scene...the less said...!

And then, there's that jazzless soundtrack - whatever possessed you in choosing such a cacophonous sound? Demons?

Michael Urie and Randy Harrison do the best they can with what they have been given...but, ultimately, fall flat on their faces into broken glass...their injuries will leave scars - a memento of what it's like to take a career backstep. Choose more wisely...or, read the bloody script before you commit!

An atrocity.

Trailer...

"Such Good People" Teaser from Such Good People on Vimeo.