The Trailer for All Good Things Contains Few Good Things

"The truth is hiding," says the Big Voice Guy toward the end of the trailer for All Good Things. In actuality, of course, the movie is hiding. Or was. Andrew Jarecki's "based on true events" tale of martial strife, deception and possible murder was sitting on The Weinstein Company's shelf for over a year before he purchased it back and sold the rights to Magnolia. A happy ending for sure, except for the fact that All Good Things looks not so good.

Based loosely on the story of Robert Durst, the son of a real estate mogul who was questioned, but never charged, after the disappearance of his wife, All Good Things looks like you're typical Lifetime movie: Ryan Gosling stars as the Durst stand-in, the privileged son who marries outside of his class structure (Kirsten Dunst) and must face the wrath of his father's prejudices. Things are great, until they're not and the trailer punctuates the action with a bunch of shady looks, rainy nights and lines of dialogue like, "Why couldn't you have given her what she wanted?" and "We had a deal!"

It all looks perfectly perfunctory, not-very-interesting and seems like yet another misstep for The Gosling. Remember when he was the Next Big Thing? Alas...

VERDICT: Pass.