All Good Things

This film is about the true crime that rocked New York back in the 1980's only to be re hatched in 2000. This very very indie film stars Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst as the happy couple. Gosling is David Marks who's Father, Sanford (Langella), is involved in some sort of shady money laundering or slum lording, but it's never actually clear to us what it is. He feels David should go into the family business, but David does not want to. He meets Kate (Dunst) and they get married, move to the country, and open a store called All Good Things. They seem happy, but the pressure Sanford puts on his son to move back is overwhelming and so it begins. The film follows David from 1971-2003 and although it moves smoothly, I feel the details were lacking in some degrees. Being a true crime suspense film, I expected more. I enjoyed it, but it could have done a better job. Once David is working for his Father, his marriage seems to crack. He begins to crack. He is irrational and easily angered. He takes his frustration out on Kate, but no one ever intervenes. Then she has had enough. She tries to get divorced, but that doesn't go over at all. She then tries a blackmail route, but to no avail. Then she just disappears. The film follows their lives up to that point, then it skips to the year 2000 when David goes to extreme measures to hide from his past. I didn't mind the film, I just wished it had more greatness. The acting was superb and Gosling really plays creepy well. 

NBM rates All Good Things - Great