‘The Good Half’ director talks why grief should be funny – Metro Philadelphia

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‘The Good Half’ director talks why grief should be funny – Metro Philadelphia

In ‘The Good Half,’ we see a story of grief told through Renn (Nick Jonas), who returns home to Cleveland for his mother’s funeral and encounters a cast of characters, both familiar and not, that help shape one of the hardest times in his life. To dig a little deeper into the film, director Robert Schwartzman sat down to discuss his own dealings with grief, how that played into the film, and why a movie that mixes tough subjects with comedy can …