So even though Collateral Beauty isn't based on any book, it's not hard to see how some pieces of classic literature could have possibly played a role in forming the film's inspiring story.

Why Collateral Beauty is bad?

It was a disastrous domino effect: Collateral Beauty didn't need to be a terrible film, but it had the wrong target audience, causing it to have the wrong cast, causing a hackneyed script to provoke a gag reflex in adults who wasted their money.

What does Collateral Beauty mean?

By collateral beauty, she means the way people act after tragic events – acts of selfless kindness that naturally follow grief and horror. Others have defined it, still in reference to the movie Collateral Beauty, as the “secondary beauty that has an everlasting ripple effect on other people's lives”.