Fresh
Offers many quiet, often character-driven rewards but struggles to become larger than the sum of its parts.
Boyd van Hoeij, Hollywood Reporter
Overview
The Ryries have suffered a loss: the death of a baby just fifty-seven hours after his birth. Without words to express their grief, the parents, John and Ricky, try to return to their previous lives. The couple's children, ten-year-old Biscuit and thirteen-year-old Paul, responding to the unnamed tensions around them, begin to act out in exquisitely idiosyncratic ways. But as the family members scatter into private, isolating grief, an unexpected visitor arrives, and they find themselves growing more alert to the hurt, humor, warmth, and burdens of others—to the grief that is part of every human life but that also carries within it the power to draw us together.
Director and cast
- Wendy Moniz as Ricky Ryrie
- Trevor St. John as John Ryrie
- Oona Laurence as Biscuit Ryrie
- Jeremy Shinder as Paul Ryrie
- Sonya Harum as Jessica Safransky
- Mike Faist as Gordie Joiner
- Rachel Dratch as Madeleine Berkowitz
- Jo Mei as Salesperson
- Jessica Pimentel as Ms. Nuñez
- Juliet Adair Pritner as Radiologist
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Fresh
A delicate, elliptically structured portrait of six wounded souls coping with the aftermath of tragedy.
Justin Chang, Variety
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