Grace Is Gone (2007)

Directed by

James C. Strouse

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 25m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 159 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A father puts off telling his two young daughters that their mother died in the Iraq war. He takes them on a road trip instead.

somberintimaterestrainedslow-burnemotionally rawreflectivemelancholicgentle

What happens

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. On January 29, 2007, it won the Audience Award for Drama at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. The film was produced by Plum Pictures and New Crime Productions and purchased by Harvey Weinstein for distribution by The Weinstein Company. Weinstein announced plans to mount an Academy Award campaign on behalf of Cusack. It is the only film scored by Clint Eastwood that he did not direct. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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