The Greatest (2009)
Directed by Shana Feste
Teenagers Rose and Bennett were in love, and then a car crash claimed Bennett's life. He left behind a grieving mother, father and younger brother, and Rose was left all alone. She has no family to turn to for support, so when she finds out she's pregnant, she winds up at the Brewer's door. She needs their help, and although they can't quite admit it, they each need her so they can begin to heal.
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I might have been more kindly disposed toward the film before I sat down to watch it had I realized it’s from writer-director Shana Feste, who has made two other interesting melodramas about women, The Greatest and Country Strong — though both of those are juicier than this one, which is surprising considering that her cowriter here is Joshua Safran, who writes for the salacious TV series Gossip Girl.
As a director, Feste often gets gold from her actors (Pierce Brosnan in "The Greatest," Leighton Meester in "Country Strong"), but as a writer she tends to play it safe.
Indie director Feste — who traversed similar territory with far more bite in “The Greatest’’ — embraces the overused clichés of contemporary romantic drama, especially montages.
In “The Greatest” (2009) and “Country Strong” (2010), Feste proved herself quite skilled, if not especially innovative, at limning her characters’ emotional travails.