Set largely inside a drug rehabilitation facility, One of the Good Ones follows an unlikely romance between two people at very different points in their recovery, using the setting to ask what honesty actually looks like when someone is trying to rebuild a life.
What is One of the Good Ones about?
Checked into treatment after years of chasing one bad decision with another, a self-described romantic meets a woman who seems to have her life more together than anyone else in the program. He is immediately drawn to her, but the facility's rules, her own guardedness, and his history of running from anything real all stand in the way of a straightforward connection. As group sessions, staff routines, and other residents fill out the world around them, the film tracks small moments of trust forming and breaking, showing recovery as something built in increments rather than a single turning point. The relationship becomes a way for both characters to test whether they can be seen clearly by someone else without falling back into old patterns.
About the cast
Jesy McKinney plays the lead role and also co-directs the film alongside Chase Tarca, with Callie Gilbert as the other half of the central pairing. The small, focused cast keeps attention on the two leads and the shifting dynamic between them throughout the film's runtime.
Context & significance
One of the Good Ones sits within a lineage of low-budget American independent dramas that use addiction and recovery as a backdrop for character study rather than issue-driven messaging. Released in 2020, it favors an intimate, dialogue-heavy approach over a larger ensemble or a plotted redemption arc, in keeping with similar small-scale relationship dramas from the same period.
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