- Drama
- 91 min
- PG-13
The only way out is through.
Life for a happy couple is turned upside down after their young son dies in an accident.
- Harm to children
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Contemporary, spare, earnest and grave.
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
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- Filipe Manuel Netoon TMDB · Jul 202210/10
**A frankly well-made film, but very painful to watch and highly contraindicated for the most sensitive and grieving people.** I cannot conceive of a pain stronger than that which a father or mother can feel when having to bury a child. No matter the causes of death, it must be as if the World, God or Fate, whatever, took away a part of us that we couldn't live without. I have to confess, honorable reader, that I have never been in a comparable situation. I can only imagine, and I honestly don't want to go through that, nor do I wish that on anyone. I am still young, and the closest person I saw go was a loving grandfather, whose memory is still with me. I suffered with that loss, and that certainty of never seeing him again, but I faced it peacefully, after all, none of us live forever and the elders leave first… it's the nature of things. This film addresses, precisely, the mourning of a child and the way in which the parents, each in their own way, live this pain and try to find ways to digest it. The world and society almost force us to overcome this after a certain moment, and return to normality. But what normality? There will be “normality” for a parent after something like
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Cast
- Nicole KidmanBecca Corbett
- Aaron EckhartHowie Corbett
- Dianne WiestNat
- Miles TellerJason
- Tammy BlanchardIzzy
- Sandra OhGabby
- Giancarlo EspositoAuggie
- Jon TenneyRick
- Stephen MailerKevin
- Mike DoyleCraig
Crew
- John Cameron MitchellDirector
- David Lindsay-AbaireScreenplay
- Frankie DeMarcoDirector of Photography
- Anton SankoOriginal Music Composer
- Joe KlotzEditor
- Per SaariProducer
- Dean VanechProducer
- Leslie UrdangProducer
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