Two things are simultaneously going on with Rory Karpf’s “Grace Point.” One – you are offered to follow around a young guy named Brandon (John Owen Lowe), who, despite his unengaging screen presence, plays a troubled youth who you would want to do better. And two – a cyclic roundabout about him trying to run away from the demons of long-suppressed trauma and the fallacy of addiction. While these coinciding things offer us a pretty neat thriller that can double down as an allegory for addiction, Karpf’s inability to gracefully follow them up with something more concrete to take home and inserting a problematic twist makes things questionable.

The opening act is solid enough though. After an anxiety-inducing prologue, we see Brandon being driven across the country to a remote rehab center by his father Winston (Andrew McCarthy). Brandon is addicted to dope and despite knowing where he is being...