In her nuanced feature film debut, director India Donaldson tackles the intricate relationship between two long-time male friends through the eyes of one of their teenage daughters. Selected in both Sundance and Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight, “Good One” follows 17-year-old Sam (Lily Collias) as she goes on a camping trip with her father, Chris (James Le Gross), and his friend, Matt (Danny McCarthy).

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Camping is a lot of fun. It offers a chance for families to have an adventure in the woods. But as seen in “Good One,” it’s not always a great time.

The trailer for “Good One” begins by showing the happy moments as a father and daughter embark on a backpacking trip with a good family friend. Things begin to deteriorate a little, testing the bonds of family, and showing that camping isn’t always awesome.

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Men can be overbearing. Some of us know this firsthand because, with a bit of self-awareness, we can recognize we have, at least at some point, been the pompous bloviating jackass while more introverted people, sometimes women, silently sit and tolerate our blowhard monologues. Maybe some of us aren’t that bad, but we haven’t always provided space for others, either. India Donaldson’s insightful, intimate girlhood drama, “Good One,” takes the soft but observant perspective of the quiet, internalized teen forced to endure haughty men, namely self-centered fathers, and turns it into a masterful look at discomfort, alienation, and the put-upon fatiguing role of people pleaser.

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Now director Jared Drake seems like a very nice, well-intentioned young man, but “Visioneers” might have worked better as a twenty five minute short and we won’t be surprised if this film can’t find a distributor and doesn’t come out.

Not wholeheartedly terrible in any way (we liked it better than “The Great Buck Howard” if that gives you any WFF perspective), the pathologically deadpan and bizarre film (we mean that in the best way possible) started out pretty amusingly — and hell, we love the odd duck comedy of Galifianakis — but couldn’t coalesce into anything concrete or remain interesting past the halfway mark.

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