Collateral Beauty 🎥 2016 Movie Info

Plot Summary

Successful advertising executive Howard Inlet makes a speech in his office to cheer on all his employees. He says that in order to go through the day with enthusiasm, they should always remember three important concepts in life, namely “Love”, “Time”, and “Death”, but in fact, three years later, Howard’s spirit fades and he becomes clinically depressed after his young daughter’s death. He becomes a loner, rarely sleeping or eating, and at the office, building domino chains and structures. Howard’s estranged friends and business partners Whit Yardsham, Claire Wilson, and Simon Scott fear for Howard’s health and their company’s future.

His behavior has cost them numerous high-profile clients and left them on the verge of bankruptcy. As the majority shareholder, Howard blocks their efforts to sell the company. The trio hires private investigator Sally Price to show Howard is unfit to run the company, hoping to take control. She intercepts three letters written by Howard which he posted to the abstract concepts of Love, Time, and Death, and presents them to the group. Whit, Claire, and Simon hire three struggling actors – Amy, Raffi, and Brigitte – to masquerade as the abstracts respectively to confront Howard about his letters.

Sally will record these encounters and then digitally erase the actors to make Howard appear mentally unbalanced. In preparation for their roles, Brigitte, Raffi, and Amy spend time with Simon, Claire, and Whit, who are undergoing their own personal problems: Simon is secretly battling cancer; Whit is struggling to connect with his pre-teen daughter Allison after cheating on her mother; and Claire is looking for sperm donors to conceive a child. After encountering “Love”, “Time” and “Death”, Howard attends a grief support group where Madeleine befriends him, she has lost her own daughter, Olivia, to cancer; which led to the end of her marriage.

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