Collateral Beauty (2016)

Most people think so. 73% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics scored it lower at 18%, but audiences disagreed.

Retreating from life after a tragedy, a man questions the universe by writing to Love, Time and Death. Receiving unexpected answers, he begins to see how these things interlock and how even loss can reveal moments of meaning and beauty. Wikipedia ↗

Collateral Beauty is a 2016 American drama directed by David Frankel. Will Smith stars as Howard Inlet, a successful New York advertising executive who withdraws from life after the death of his six-year-old daughter, spending his days building elaborate domino structures in silence. His concerned partners, played by Edward Norton, Kate Winslet, and Michael Pena, discover that Howard has been writing angry letters to abstract concepts — Love, Time, and Death — and hire three actors played by Keira Knightley, Jacob Latimore, and Helen Mirren to portray these concepts and confront him in person, hoping to capture the encounters on video to have him declared mentally incompetent so they can sell the company.

Despite its star-studded cast, Collateral Beauty received overwhelmingly negative reviews, with critics finding the premise emotionally manipulative and the friends' scheme morally questionable rather than touching. The film earned $88 million worldwide on a $36 million budget.