Rating: PG13
Genre:
Drama
Release Date: 05/27/2008
SubTitles: Espanol/English
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD2/DD5.1
Run Time: 84 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: Weinstein Company
The contemplative, understated tearjerker
Grace is Gone dramatizes the quiet crisis that befalls
Stanley (
John Cusack), a young Midwestern husband of a female marine stationed in Iraq, and a father of two girls. Suddenly and unexpectedly widowed when his wife,
Grace, is murdered on the battlefield,
Stanley cannot bring himself to share the devastating news with his two young daughters. In lieu of speaking to them immediately about their mother's death,
Stanley internalizes his devastation and takes the girls on a road trip, while he attempts to sort through a myriad of conflicted and tumultuous internal feelings about the war itself and contemplates how to break the shattering news. Inevitably, the road trip will end with
Grace's funeral. This film represents the brainchild of producer-star
Cusack and writer-director
James C. Strouse. It began with
Cusack's fury about the
Bush administration's policy banning footage of caskets returned from the Iraq and Afghani wars, and his desire to see those events played out onscreen, in the lives of American citizens.
~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
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