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Rose Byrne legal thriller shifts from calamity to conventional twists
The Good Daughter is a psychological legal thriller starring Rose Byrne and Meghann Fahy as sisters whose family is shaped by a shooting and its aftermath. The review finds its opening packed with calamity to the point of seeming farcical, but says the drama later settles into a more conventional, twist-filled thriller.
Fahy plays a lawyer alongside her father, played by Brendan Gleeson, while Byrne’s character is a wealthy New York lawyer who joins them after the shooting. The story links the family’s handling of their mother’s death with the wider community’s involvement in the attack; the review says the sisters’ relationship is more compelling than the plot, which it considers glossy and politically muted.
In short
- The thriller opens with a string of traumatic events.
- Meghann Fahy and Rose Byrne play sisters and lawyers.
- The review favours their relationship over the plot.
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Originally published by The Guardian as “The Good Daughter: Rose Byrne’s legal thriller is so full of calamity it borders on Mr Bean-like farce”.