Clean Hands

Tribeca Film Festival 2026 A looooooong 108 minutes. I’m barely familiar with Zach Braff other than name recognition and the premise only seemed somewhat interesting but I needed a filler so went to check out Jake Allyn’s Clean Hands. A film about a city cop (Braff) waging…

🎃Danielle🎃

Like Beautiful Boy and Ben Is Back, Jake Allyn’s Clean Hands deals with the helplessness of parents whose teenager struggles with addiction. It also highlights the shortcomings and inequities within the justice and healthcare systems. It is based on the true story of the…

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Caught at Nashville Film Festival and wish I could’ve stayed for the Q&A!  But, wow. Incredible story, loved the sound design and many of the parallel shots. No dry eyes around me, I’ll say.  I kept feeling as if the ending was a little long, but once we got to the true…

cadie

a beautiful depiction of how the sacrifices we make to help the people we love can sometimes be the exact things that hurt them the most. zach’s performance really shined in the moments of distress. personally, it was a hard sell on him being a cop, but never on him being…

liz

This is a tearjerker for sure. Zach Braff running around in a bulletproof vest worked for me. His performance is really good. It's always a little difficult for me to see him in such serious roles but there was a nice balance of humor in this film that made it…

Katelyn Hutchinson

Stunning performances by Zach Bragg and Esther Mcgregor respectively. Incredible story.

Jamie Broadnax

Tribeca 2026 Watch #6 This film follows a narcotics police officer and his daughter fighting addiction. Something this film did great was not shying away from all the hard emotional moments. We stayed long on performances, faced some difficult scenes head on, and cut away…

Amélie Stambouli

Great vehicle for Zach Braff’s dramatic chops but needed WAY more Abbey Rhyne.

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Tribeca Film 2  Clean Hands is directed by Jake Allyn who previously directed Ride (2024).  Clean Hands is based on the true story of Kevin Simmers and his daughter Brooke the latter of which struggled with opioid addiction. The two navigate the American drug crisis on…

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