Hope comes with letting go.
A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the family cope and confront their loss.
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Earnest, contemporary, spare and classical in form.
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
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Cast
- Halle BerryAudrey Burke
- Benicio del ToroJerry Sunborne
- David DuchovnySteven Burke
- Alison LohmanKelly
- Omar Benson MillerNeal
- John Carroll LynchHoward Glassman
- Alexis LlewellynHarper Burke
- Micah BerryDory Burke
- Sarah DubrovskySpring
- Liam JamesCousin Dave
Crew
- Susanne BierDirector
- Allan LoebScreenplay
- Tom SternDirector of Photography
- Johan SöderqvistOriginal Music Composer
- Bruce CannonEditor
- Pernille Bech ChristensenEditor
- Sam MercerProducer
- Barbara KellyProducer
- Sam MendesProducer
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