Collateral Beauty (2016) character relationship network mapped with AI analysis. Explore the connections, alliances, and conflicts between characters.
Successful advertising executive who falls into clinical depression after his daughter's death. He isolates himself, builds domino structures, and writes letters to abstract concepts. Eventually confr...
Howard's estranged business partner who hires a PI and actors to prove Howard is unfit. Struggles with his own guilt after cheating on his daughter's mother, eventually makes amends with his daughter...
Howard's estranged business partner and majority shareholder who hires actors to confront Howard. She seeks sperm donors to conceive a child and later receives encouraging words from Raffi about her f...
Howard's estranged business partner secretly battling cancer. He confides in Brigitte about his fear of death, learns to share his burden with loved ones, and reconciles with his wife.
Struggling actor hired to masquerade as Death. She spends time with Simon, encourages him to share his illness, and is later revealed to be the woman who taught Madeleine about collateral beauty.
Struggling actor hired to masquerade as Time. He interacts with Claire, tells her she will make a good mother, and shares how others positively impacted his youth.
Private investigator hired by Howard's friends to prove his mental unfitness. She intercepts his letters, records the staged encounters, and coordinates the digital erasure of the actors.
Member of a grief support group who lost her daughter Olivia to cancer. She befriends Howard, explains the concept of collateral beauty as acts of kindness after tragedy, and helps him finally confron...
Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.
Howard's young daughter Olivia died, causing his clinical depression; Madeleine's video reveals Howard playing dominoes with her.
Madeleine has lost her daughter Olivia to cancer and discusses that loss with Howard.
Raffi is hired to masquerade as Time and confront Howard about his letter.
Brigitte is hired to masquerade as Death and confront Howard about one of his letters.
Simon joins Whit and Claire in employing Sally for the investigation of Howard.
Claire participates in hiring Sally to intercept Howard's letters and document his behavior.
Whit is part of the group that hires Sally to prove Howard is unfit to run the company.
Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.
Simon fears death while Howard and Madeleine's stories center on daughters lost to cancer.
Madeleine befriends Howard in a grief support group and helps him speak about his daughter's death.
Brigitte is revealed to be the woman who told Madeleine to notice collateral beauty after Olivia's death.
Raffi tells Claire that she will make a good mother and says her struggle with time is not over.
Simon confides in Brigitte about his cancer and fear of death, and she encourages him to share the burden.
Sally intercepts Howard's letters, records the staged encounters, and coordinates the digital removal of the actors.
A grieving father confronts loss while the people around him discover unexpected forms of love, time, mortality, and kindness.
Directed by David Frankel
Collateral Beauty (2016) · 7.2/10 · drama, romance
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