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- Ultimately, it's understandable why most viewers won't likely be breezing past the weekend's other releases to see Grace is Gone, but those who do will be duly rewarded with a film that is smart, sensitive and deeply human. 3.5 out of 5 Stars, 7/10 Score
www.ign.com/articles/2007/12/07/grace-is-gone-review
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“Grace Is Gone” is not a great movie, simply functional, but Cusack gives a great performance. The film somehow doesn’t live up to his work. It wasn’t shot on video (and, for that matter, good video these days can look great), but the screen looks dingy and some life seems to be faded from it.
Grace is Gone is a very good war film. And by war I mean a film that focuses on its impact on the home-front. When Stanley (Cusack) learns of his wife's death in Iraq, it takes some mental juggling for him to come to terms with what that means for him and his two young daughters.
Grace Is Gone: Directed by Jim Strouse. With John Cusack, Emily Churchill, Rebecca Spence, Jennifer Tyler. Upon hearing his wife was killed in the Iraq war, a father takes his two daughters on a road trip.
- (9.7K)
- Drama, War
- Jim Strouse
- 2008-01-10
Grace Is Gone is a 2007 American drama film written and directed by James C. Strouse in his directorial debut. It stars John Cusack as a father who cannot bring himself to tell his two daughters that their mother, a soldier in the U.S. Army, has just been killed on a tour of duty in Iraq.
Grace Is Gone is a sensitive movie but it goes weak in key places. Strause cuts the sound in the revelatory scene just when Stanley gets to the hardest part of telling the girls the truth. The film in effect cops out just the way the father has been doing all along.
Dec 7, 2007 · All of which is why Grace is Gone may not break the supposed box office curse on all war-related movies made in Hollywood, but it will certainly rank as one of the best in this emerging...
Dec 7, 2007 · The most noteworthy thing about the Iraq war home-front drama, Grace Is Gone, is that Clint Eastwood composed its musical score and title song, which have both been garnering all sorts of accolades, including dual Golden Globe nominations.
