'Collateral Beauty' Isn't Based On A Book, But The Movie's Plot Would Be At Home In Any Library.

Is Collateral Beauty based on a true story?

The premise is imaginative and intriguing, but while the film might be emotionally real, Collateral Beauty isn't based on a true story. ... However, in this case, the film is working entirely with fiction. Collateral Beauty, directed by David Frankel, is based off of a screenplay written by Allan Loeb.

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.