The Best You Can ending explained: Stan and Cynthia's eventual fate revealed

The Best You Can is a film in the romantic comedy genre written and directed by Michael J. Weithorn. It had its world premiere at the 2025 Tribeca Festival and was released theatrically on November 7, 2025. The film is produced by Weithorn, Victoria Hill, Andrew Mann, Andrew Wonder, Kevin Bacon, and Kyra Sedgwick. Here's the official synopsis as per IMDb:

Stan Olszewski, a security guard foils a home robbery attempt at Cynthia Rand's residence. A charged friendship develops starting with late-night humorous texts. Their deepening bond shakes up both their lives.

Let's explore the film's ending and find out if Cynthia and Stan end up together or not.

What is the plot of The Best You Can?

The Best You Can focuses on a security guard named Stan Olszewski (played by Kevin Bacon). He works at the house of a lady named Cynthia Rand (Kyra Sedgwick). One day, a major robbery is about to take place at her house. But Stan manages to prevent it. This leads to a friendship between them, which eventually turns into love.

How does The Best You Can end?

In The Best You Can, Cynthia is married when she starts seeing Stan. Her husband, Warren, is old and suffers from dementia. After several years, the spark between them diminishes. She meets Stan, and the two slowly start falling for each other. Cynthia feels guilty about this, but soon, Warren passes away. He was a successful writer in his heyday and was struggling to write a book on his Watergate experience. Cynthia still loved him, but Warren's body had slowly become a burden on the family. After his demise, Stan managed to comfort her while she was going through this loss.

Stan was also married and had a daughter named Sammi (Brittany O'Grady). She is an aspiring musician, but there's some conflict between the father-daughter duo. This is because Stan had moved to Colorado to pursue his dreams when Sammi was young. He had taken Sammi camping when she was 10 years old. The high altitude caused her ear pain, and Stan had to put peroxide in her eardrums. But he missed the mark, and some of it came to Sammi's eyes. Stan also put some of it in his eyes out of guilt.

He then tried to take her to the hospital, but the two fell into a mud-filled terrain. Luckily, Sammi has come to realize that her father was trying his best. But he messed up in that situation. She has come to terms with everything, and their relationship improves.

Towards the end of The Best You Can, Cythina and Stan end up together. The two go through a lot but manage to resurface out of everything. She manages to publish Warren's book titled A Bookcase after his demise. This was her way to honor his legacy and the work of many years.

What do you think of the film's ending?