Good Bones is a comedic coming-of-age story set in the cutthroat world of Hamptons Real Estate. Danny O'Brien, 22, dedicates one last summer to his family's failing real estate agency, and to his father Joe's seemingly obsolete values: poetry, integrity, and community. The O'Briens are challenged - endangered - by heartless capitalist modernism, as practiced by the liars and cheaters at Superlative Properties, realtors to the Ultra-Wealthy and Fabulous. Danny complicates the game by falling in love with Clare, a beautiful and suspiciously sophisticated Superlative summer intern. All is framed by the mad swirl of "summer people" who party, sleep around and generally amuse themselves as they indulge in the excesses of "The Season." And key players chase the grand prize: the open auction, on Labor Day, of Tilden Point - the last great parcel of virgin land on the East Coast.
Writing
Dad speeches about poetry in boardrooms hit weirdly hard.
Costume
The summer-people wardrobe is its own character.
Director
Tim Bohn
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kelly Jean Killoren, credited as 'Incentive Actress,' is actually Kelly Killoren Bensimon of Real Housewives of New York fame—reality TV royalty playing fictional real estate satire.
The film channels 1980s yuppie comedies like Bright Lights, Big City but arrives in 2017, when Hamptons inequality had become almost too absurd to parody.
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