Movie #400........................."Rabbithole"

Movie #400 "Rabbithole" -- I saw the play, one of the few people in the theatre that probably could say that, so I knew what it was about. I was seeing it because Nicole Kidman is up for an academy award for best actress, and boy she is good --- everyone is here, Dianne Wiest (her mom), the sister, Sandra Oh (the group therapy person), and Aaron Ekhart (the hubby). The movie is about grief --- every bit of it, and this film shows most of it, with aplomb. The group sessions, the blaming, the folding of the clothes and giving it away, the hurt, the despair, there isn't a beat that doesn't ring true to me, but then I haven't gone through what these people have to go through. I think the statistic is that 90% of husbands and wives who lose a child do NOT stay together, and this movie shows you why it is a deep hole you are suddenly thrust into, incapable at times of crawling out. For a film on such a sad subject, I think it has a good share of humor and other moments that somewhat try to balance all the sadness out --- but, audience, beware -- this is a very sad movie. In comparison to the play, I thought this had more answers, and it seemed more of a finished product. And it got me thinking a lot! And this is a topic I have thought about a lot anyway, so that's a credit to the film and its actors and its screenwriter David Lindsay-Abaire's original script (this is a pulitzer prize winning play first, and that helps).




I gave it 4 stars.
Rabbit Hole
(2010) PG-13
In this raw drama based on David Lindsay-Abaire's Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name, Becca (Nicole Kidman) and Howie (Aaron Eckhart) grapple with the realities of life eight months after the death of their 4-year-old son, Danny. Even with Becca's well-meaning mother (Dianne Wiest) offering comfort and weekly group therapy always available, the couple go about their own secret ways of coping. John Cameron Mitchell directs.
Genre: Indie Dramas, Tearjerkers
This movie is: Emotional, Dark
Format: DVD and Blu-ray availability date unknown