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When it comes to a film’s success, it’s not always about the story that’s being told but how it’s being told and the talent of those who are bringing it to life. Such is the case with “Our Friend,” a movie that may at first evoke a reaction of “been there, saw that” but ends up proving a tender, enormously moving retelling of a heartbreaking time in the life of a family and the best friend who helped them through it.
Based on a 2015 Esquire article by Matthew Teague, the movie follows the true-life story of journalist Teague (Casey Affleck) and his luminous wife, Nicole (Dakota Johnson), who is diagnosed with terminal cancer. More than a year later, as caring for the increasingly ill Nicole and their active young daughters, Molly (Isabella Kai) and Evie (Violet McGraw), becomes too much for Matt, his and Nicole’s old best friend from college, Dane Faucheux (Jason Segel), moves from New Orleans to quaint Fairhope, Ala. (where the film was shot), to live with an