Is Now Is Good a great film? Almost certainly not. But its effectiveness is frightening. Bring whole sheaves of tissues.

Presses the obvious buttons so hard that you feel totally manipulated.

As the two-dimensional Perfect Boyfriend, Irvine chases any sense of reality from the screen.

To be avoided at all costs, Now Is Good is in fact far from good, but instead a tiresome, often appalling drama with little or no honesty or tact.