With ‘A Good Person,’ Zach Braff Creates Something Worse Than the Manic Pixie Dream Girl

Even with the always-wonderful Florence Pugh leading the addiction drama, the filmmaker can't kick his cliched ideas of on-screen womanhood.

Molly Shannon Is Game for Anything, from Getting Bruised by Florence Pugh to Returning to Host ‘SNL’

She has proven herself a serious dramatic actor many times, but to a generation of oddballs she'll always be the first lady of comedy.

‘A Good Person’ Review: Florence Pugh Muscles Through Zach Braff’s Stilted Addiction Melodrama

Florence Pugh and Morgan Freeman try valiantly to carry this heavy-handed melodrama about a woman who survives a car crash.

Zach Braff Wrote ‘Garden State’ Manic Pixie Dream Girl to Heal from Being a ‘Very Depressed Young Man’

"As I was writing it, I was hoping I could survive what became known as the quarter-life crisis, and depression, and fantasizing that the perfect woman would come along and rescue me," the "Garden State" writer-director said.

Florence Pugh Says It’d Be ‘Strange’ to Star in a Nancy Meyers-Type Film: ‘I Only Pick Very Intense Roles’

Playing an opioid-addicted grieving woman is the closest to a rom-com Pugh will ever get, said the Oscar-nominated star.

‘A Good Person’ Trailer: Florence Pugh Grieves with Guilt in Zach Braff’s Family Drama

Molly Shannon and Chinaza Uche also star in the upcoming film, in theaters March 24.