“Damaged Goods” (**1/2 out of four) was a ruminating but remote melodrama about a young woman (Hannah Alline) whose life is unraveling who is contacted about her estranged father (Danny Vinson) who sexually abused her and scarred her for life and now needs part of her liver to survive and she is in a moral and personal quandary of whether to forgive him and save his life or let him perish. Affecting story about forgiveness and betrayal and the various scars from childhood trauma and abuse but story never hits the emotional crescendo that it should and ending is overly pat. Some scattered effective moments and solid performances by both Alline and Vinson still make it worthwhile.

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