After the tragic overdose of his estranged friend, Will, a recovering addict, returns home, where he is reunited with Claire, his friend's grieving mother, with whom he begins a secret but volatile affair.
Acting
Keener and Heaton's chemistry is wrong in all the right ways.
Direction
Smoot/Irvine let scenes ache past comfort.
Writing
Dialogue that stumbles like real people drowning.
Director
Andrew Irvine
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Heaton researched with addiction recovery counselors; Keener improvised several of Claire's breakdown beats.
The title's double meaning: no future for Will's sobriety, and the literal absence of the friend named Future in early drafts.
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