Monday, March 3, 2008

Things We Lost in the Fire


this movie came out in October '07 and for some reason it kind of faded away, no one talked about it much and it didn't make any money.....that last one makes sense because it couldn't be easy to market a film like with a description like this:

A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the family cope and confront their loss.

Yikes right?

BUT.

please do yourself a favor and rent it.

i thought it was kind of a beautiful movie. benicio del toro, had he been nominated for an Academy Award (which he should have been instead of Tommy Lee Jones and/or Johnny Depp), would have been the only one that came close to the acting job DDL did.

halle berry, whom I usually am not really a fan of is fantastic too.

here is a good article and further positive review on the movie and it's performances from Hollywood Elsewhere.

No comments: