Evidently, the friends of family of Kathleen Durst (the inspiration for Katie) believe justice was never done and Durst's money helped him avoid the consequences of his actions. The names were presumably changed to allow for speculation on how two murders and one disappearance are linked.Ī documentary extra examines the real case of Robert Durst, the disturbed individual who inspired the character of David. While the film defies the typical Hollywood narrative, Jarecki puts the puzzle pieces together in an interesting way. The relationship degenerates further into domestic violence, until Katie goes missing, and all signs point to David as the prime suspect.Īnd, indeed, David proves himself capable of monstrous violence some years later when he is arrested for the murder and dismemberment of an elderly neighbour in Galveston, Texas. It means more money and nicer digs for the couple, but the strains start to show when the increasingly crazed David announces he doesn't want children, forcing the pregnant Katie into a heart-breaking abortion. But that comes to an end when dad puts pressure to bear on his neurotic offspring to return to the family business of maintaining sleazy Time Square properties (prior to the Disneyfication of Times Square in the early '90s). They eventually get married and open a health food store called All Good Things. David (Ryan Gosling) falls in love with Katie (Kirsten Dunst) after being sent to fix a leak in her apartment, one of many New York buildings owned by David's brutish real estate magnate father (Frank Langella). Simpson trial." It starts as a star-crossed romance.
The names have been changed, but this is based on a story that threatened to become the "East Coast's O.J. And since the missing-person case at the centre of this story is still technically unsolved, the ambiguity is there too.
Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst in All Good Things.ĭIRECTOR Andrew Jarecki is best known for the documentary Capturing the Friedmans, which examined the aftermath - and the maddening ambiguity - surrounding a case of sexual abuse involving a fractured family.Įxcept for the fact that All Good Things is a dramatization of a real-life case of murder, the story is very much in Jarecki's wheelhouse of crime and familial dysfunction.
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