Nick Jonas’s Renn Wheeland embarks on a journey of healing following the death of his mother in the trailer of The Good Half, dropped by the makers on Friday.

The two-minute-36-second-long begins with Renn travelling back home to Cleveland for his mother’s funeral. On the way, he forges a new relationship with fellow passenger Zoey (Alexandra Shipp). When Renn visits his grieving family, he tries to mend his relationship with his overbearing sister Leigh (Brittany Snow).

While collecting his mother’s belongings from the hospital, Renn recalls his childhood spent with her. The trailer also shows how Renn confronts his past and confronts his stepfather (David Arquette) with some assistance from his real father (Matt Walsh).

At the end of the trailer, Nick realises that there have always been two halves of his life — a good one and a bad one. His sister, on the other hand, is heard saying she wouldn’t trade the good half of her life for the whole world.

Directed by Robert Schwartzman, The Good Half is penned by Brett Ryland. It premiered in 2023 at the Tribeca Festival.

“Renn Wheeland (Nick Jonas) returns home to Cleveland for his mother’s funeral. Once there, he forges new relationships while healing old ones (featuring co-stars Brittany Snow, David Arquette, Alexandra Shipp, Matt Walsh and Elisabeth Shue), before confronting his problems and trying to face his grief,” reads the official synopsis of the film.

Schwartzman made his directorial debut with Dreamland in 2016. He has also appeared as an actor in films like The Virgin Suicides (1999) and The Princess Diaries (2001).

Nick, on the other hand, has appeared in several movies including Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017), Camp Rock (2008) and Careful What You Wish For (2015). The singer-actor recently did a cameo in Love Again starring his wife Priyanka Chopra.