Great Great Great

Great Great Great is a Canadian indie film written and directed by Adam Garnet Jones. The film stars Sarah Kolasky, Daniel Beirne, Richard Clarkin, Meredith Cheesbrough, Lindsay Leese, and John Jarvis.

In the span of Lauren and Tom’s five-year relationship, they’ve never had a fight. Their sex life is fine. They get along fine. Everything points to marriage, until Lauren suddenly sees a lifetime of “just fine” yawning ahead of her, and it immediately makes her hungry for a better, fuller future. She just has to decide what “better” really means. Great Great Great is a deeply relatable portrait of a woman who makes us squirm with discomfort while asking us to love some of the most unlovable parts of ourselves.

“From the beginning of this project, some people have called the film’s central character Lauren ‘unlikeable’,” Jones says. “We live in a world where people tell stories about men who rape, torture, and murder for fun. The ‘likeability’ of those characters is never in question. But when it comes to telling stories about women, conversations around a woman’s ‘likeability’ abound. Rather than try to make Lauren more palatable, we decided to celebrate Lauren’s flaws as a reflection of our own. We see ourselves in her, even when it’s painful.”

Great Great Great is rated 14A.