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No Future

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When an estranged friend shows up on his porch one night, Will (Charlie Heaton) doesn't know what to say. As a recovering addict trying to get his life back on track between meetings, he shows clear signs of continued abuse. Will's uncomfortable old wounds are quickly made worse when news arrives the next morning of a fatal overdose. Overcome by grief, Will returns home to find a community still holding on to memories of the damage left in his wake, and his friend's grieving mother Claire (Catherine Keener) struggles to come to terms with her son's death. Reconnecting with Claire after years apart, the two's relationship soon transforms into an affair that comes to both comfort and distort their complicated feelings of guilt and grief. Sensitively depicting the collective trauma plaguing countless communities throughout the country, directors Mark Smoot and Andrew Irvine craft an empathetic and emotionally precise drama, grounded in Keener and Heaton's remarkably sensitive performances.

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Peter Sobczynski RogerEbert.com 10/22/2021
3/4
A fairly smart and realistic depiction of two people consumed by grief, guilt, and loss and the misguided ways by which they attempt to come to terms with those feelings. Go to Full Review Calum Marsh New York Times 10/21/2021
In flattening everything into a single shade of funereal gray, "No Future" has none of the ineffable, multifaceted complexity of life. Go to Full Review Tim Grierson Screen International 06/28/2021
No Future reaches a finale that earns its bittersweet aftertaste - gracefully underlining just how difficult the path to recovery will be... Go to Full Review Alessandra Rangel InSession Film 03/08/2023
C
No Future is a deeply gloomy and unempathetic story of loss and sadness. While it has an intriguing cast, it inspires an uncomfortable feeling of defeat. Go to Full Review Carson Timar ButteredPopcorn 02/15/2022
A
The more one sits with No Future, the more impressive it feels. While not entirely new or groundbreaking, the emotions at the center of the feature feel powerful and commanding. Go to Full Review Robert W. Butler Butler's Cinema Scene 11/04/2021
B-
The performances -- especially from Keener in full anti-glamour mode -- are the stuff of heartbreak. And yet No Future is so unrelentingly glum that it's a struggle to sit through. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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01/13/2023 Acting is good but the story was just so dreary and didn’t get me invested enough to the characters early on to make it worth the drear 2.2 See more nefasto r @Nefasto 11/24/2021 A bleak drama about addiction and grief. Simple, but felt and wonderfully acted. See more Read all reviews
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Andrew Irvine

Director

Mark Smoot

Director

Andrew Irvine

Director

Catherine Keener

Claire

Charlie Heaton

Will

Rosa Salazar

Becca

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Synopsis When an estranged friend shows up on his porch one night, Will (Charlie Heaton) doesn't know what to say. As a recovering addict trying to get his life back on track between meetings, he shows clear signs of continued abuse. Will's uncomfortable old wounds are quickly made worse when news arrives the next morning of a fatal overdose. Overcome by grief, Will returns home to find a community still holding on to memories of the damage left in his wake, and his friend's grieving mother Claire (Catherine Keener) struggles to come to terms with her son's death. Reconnecting with Claire after years apart, the two's relationship soon transforms into an affair that comes to both comfort and distort their complicated feelings of guilt and grief. Sensitively depicting the collective trauma plaguing countless communities throughout the country, directors Mark Smoot and Andrew Irvine craft an empathetic and emotionally precise drama, grounded in Keener and Heaton's remarkably sensitive performances.
Director
Andrew Irvine, Mark Smoot, Andrew Irvine
Producer
Jonathan Duffy, Lisa Normand, Jeff Walker, Kelly Williams
Screenwriter
Andrew Irvine, Mark Smoot, Andrew Irvine
Production Co
Ten Acre Films, Terraform Films (II)
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Oct 22, 2021
Runtime
1h 29m