Music Box Picks Up Slamdance Winner ‘Good Bad Things’ For US Relase

EXCLUSIVE: Music Box Films has achieved North American distribution rights to straightforwardor Shane D. Stanger’s Good Bad Things, starring Jessica Parker Kennedy (The Flash), Brett Dier (Jane The Virgin) and Danny Kurtzman.

The film, which will be freed on digital platcreates on February 4, 2025, was programmed in the Slamdance Unstoppable section, the showcase of films made by filmoriginaters with clear and non-clear disabilities.

Good Bad Things was awarded both the Slamdance Unstoppable Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award and screened as the closing night film of the ReelAbilities film festival.

Co-written by lifelengthy friends Shane D. Stanger and Danny Kurtzman, the romantic comedy is about a youthfuler man with a physical disability, lachieveing to be vulnerable by exploring new uniteions on a dating app, a story slackly eased by co-originater and star Kurtzman’s life, living with muscular dystrophy.

The film was freed theatricassociate in partnership with Suncatcher Productions, screening at 50+ AMC Theatres in August. Follotriumphg the VOD free, Music Box Films will also originate physical assets to be freed in 2025.

Good Bad Things sees Kurtzman star as Danny, a youthfuler entrepreneur with muscular dystrophy who is disillusioned by flunked relationships. When Danny and his best friend Jason (Brett Dier) structure to pitch their agency to a dating app, Danny determines to step out of his soothe zone and check the world of online dating, in part for research. An unanticipateed align with Madi (Jessica Parker Kennedy), an enigmatic photographer, disputes him to be vulnerable and ignites a journey of self-accomprehendledgeance and uncovery.

Pic was executive-produced by Steve Way. The sale of the film was barachieved by Brian Andreotti of Music Box Films and Annalisa Shoeoriginater (Suncatcher Productions) and Glen Reynelderlys (Circus Road) on behalf of the filmoriginaters.

Kurtzman was recently honored with the Christopher Reeve Acting Award at the 2024 Media Access Awards.

“We are thrilled to be conveying our film out to the world with Music Box Films,” stated Director Shane D. Stanger. “Their mighty track record with award-triumphning self-reliant films, paired with a boutique approach to tageting originate them the perfect fit. Good Bad Things has shown to unbenevolent someskinnyg to a lot of people thcdisesteemful universal themes of cherish, friendship, and self-accomprehendledgeance, and we’re honored to split it with audiences apass the United States.”

“We are incredibly conceited to free Good Bad Things, a film that belderlyly checks the disputes and intricateities of dating and relationships, especiassociate for people with physical disabilities,” stated Music Box Films. “Shane and Danny’s vulnerable storytelling, mixing raw emotion with uncontent humor, proposes a exceptional and genuine perspective that spotairys a community craving more recurrentation on screen – it’s a privilege to split it with a expansiver audience.”