| All Good Things Starring Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst
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Director Andrew Jarecki, (director/producer of Capturing the Friedmans) along with writers Marc Smerling and Marcus Hinchey, based this love-story-gone-wrong on the strange events surrounding the disappearance of a woman named Kathleen Durst in 1982. Wife to the wealthy heir of the Durst real estate fortune, Robert Durst, Kathleen's body was never found. Despite the correlation between her case and two homicides almost twenty years later, Robert Durst was never tried for her murder, and lives as a free, if not haunted man to this day.
Jarecki and fellow writers conducted in-depth research into this mysterious case, but their aim was not to merely present facts. “We didn’t try to replicate the exact history, but worked to capture the emotion and complexity of this love story turned unsolved mystery that has for years been kept hidden from public view.” He said. It is for this reason that the character’s the film presents are David and Katie Marks, a promising young couple whose world begins to turn on its head once David’s father convinces him to accept a position working for their family’s real estate company.