Let me first say that this movie drops the F-Bomb twice so, if you don't want to subject yourself to the swearing, there is my warning. It is rated PG-13, so I was surprised. It also has an awkward scene where John is visiting a support group for military wives and they discuss intimacy between spouses. So there is the warning...
I am a huge John Cusack fan, even with the few movies I haven't seen that have been rated R. This movie was somthing totally different for him. He looked so much older, it made me feel a little old too. I loved the movie.
It was about a man whose wife is killed in the war and Iraq and he is left to tell his two daughters. One daughter is 12 and a half the other 8 years old. He can't bring himself to do it, not that he doesn't think he should he just doesn't know how. I think the movie gives a realistic look into the difficulty of experiencing a loss of that magnitude. It also doesn't sugar coat it like some movies where the loss is the motivation for some great change in the lives of those left behind.
The movie shows that it is tragic, that there is no "best" way to deal with in and in the end, you just have to figure out a way to keep living.
It is sad...but to me seemed very real. John Cusack did a fanatastic job and though the movie came out last year, I think it was worth the watch.
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