Will Smith Tries to Transcend Grief Through Magical Means in First 'Collateral Beauty' Trailer
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‘Tis the season to buzz about movie-award contenders. This winter, Will Smith will make a heartstring-tugging bid for Oscar gold with Collateral Beauty — a chase kicked off by its first trailer (watch it above).
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Love, time, and death – “these three things connect every single being on Earth,” says Smith in this debut promo. If that sounds like the preface for some serious schmaltz, the rest of this initial clip doesn’t disappoint. In it, Smith’s professional, still grieving over the death of his daughter, begins coping with his misery by writing letters to those three universal entities, much to the concern of his friends Kate Winslet, Edward Norton, and Michael Peña. Things take a magical turn, however, when after mailing his missives to Death, Time, and Love, he’s greeted by them — in the form of, respectively, a dapper-looking Helen Mirren, Jacob Latimore, and Keira Knightley.
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In other words, Collateral Beauty is a modern riff on A Christmas Carol by way of It’s A Wonderful Life, with extra dollops of saccharine uplift and some recurring domino symbolism about the interconnectedness of life. Whether audiences and critics will fall for its sweet spirituality won’t be known until the film — directed by David Frankel, and also co-starring Naomie Harris — premieres in theaters on Dec. 16.
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