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"Rabbit Hole" is not going to be a movie for everyone. It is "slow" by any standard, there isn't a lot of resolution present, and the tone is quite somber throughout. What the film does feature, however, are some of the best acting performances you will ever see, as well as a unflinching look at grief and how one couple try to cope with it.For a basic plot summary, "Rabbit Hole" focuses on Becca (Nicole Kidman) & Howie (Aaron Eckhart), a couple who lost their young son in a terrible accident. Each try to cope with that grief in their own way, with Becca turning to family--especially mother Nat (Dianne Wiest), who suffered a similar tragedy in the family--even when anger is the usual resolution, and Howie potentially finding solace in new group therapy partner Gabby (Sandra Oh). Becca also even goes so far as to stay in contact with Jason (Miles Teller), the perpetrator of the tragedy. Will they continue to drift apart, though neither of them truly want that to happen, or will they find some way to reconcile their grief and make things work?At some point in everyone's life, they will experience intense grief or a tragedy of some kind. Life makes this almost inevitable. After these tragedies occurs, there usually comes a point where life takes one of two paths: You either fully live within the grief, or you decide to try and move forward, even in small ways. That is what "Rabbit Hole" is all about. Becca & Howie are at that stage where "something needs to happen", yet neither person knows exactly what that is or how they should proceed. This makes for some incredible, emotional, and also rather difficult material throughout the movie.A film like this will either be made or broken by the acting performances, and fortunately they all shine here. In all honesty, this is some of the best acting I have ever seen on screen. Considering that the movie is only about 90-some minutes long, I consider it quite a feat that I was completely and utterly invested in the characters by the end. While it takes a good idea and a good script to do that too, just as much credit should be given to the emotional performances.Like all of us, I have experienced grief both myself and inside my family, and thus I found myself very much relating to what the principals here were going through. Grief is a confusing, sad, and confounding thing, which is why "Rabbit Hole" is so powerful and melancholy at the same time. I found that to be a fascinating and riveting mix.Overall, "Rabbit Hole" won't go down as one of my all-time favorite single films. Its scope isn't big enough for that. What I will remember it for, however, is its ability to accurately and emotional portray a realistic rendering of the grief and mourning process. If you don't mind a slower-paced film, and one filled with often conflicting emotions, "Rabbit Hole" will be a sort of unheralded gem for you to add to your film-watching experience.

Becca (Nicole Kidman) and Howie Corbett (Aaron Eckhart) are holding it together after their son Danny is killed by teen driver Jason (Miles Teller). Her sister Izzy (Tammy Blanchard) is pregnant with her musician boyfriend. Izzy keeps rejecting her help like Danny's clothes. She's a former executive who feels lost. Tension rises between the couple about how to move on. Emotional eruptions occur especially against her mother Nat (Dianne Wiest). She starts connecting with Jason while Howie finds a confidant in group-participant Gabby (Sandra Oh).It's a bit slow sometimes. A lot of time, the tension exists below the surface until it blows up on the screen. Everybody is putting up a front. There is so much emotional tension that the eruptions actually feel liberating. Some of them bring out a nervous giggle. The acting is big time for everybody. Kidman, Eckhart, Wiest and Teller are all doing exceptional work.

"Rabbit Hole" is a well done picture from 2010. It is currently available on NetFlix Instant Download Streaming. The director is John Cameron Mitchell. The writer is David Lindsay-Abaire for both the screenplay as well as the play. John Cameron Mitchell's piece is the most simple film of the year, yet one of the best. Please do not confuse simple with simplistic. It's a rather complex turmoil of emotions that come together to provide an intense account of a couple coping with their son's death. However it is done in such a clean and polished manner that one might wonder if the secret of success lies on the "simple" process of feeling the imagery and capturing the visual style. It's extremely effective and gives room to the actors do what they do best. Rabbit Hole is not about the loss, but how to cope with it and how hard and emotionally heavy it can be. Through day-to-day actions people try to forget, believing that the solution lies on the non-existence, but the truth is that facing reality is much more efficient. Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart prove that point by engaging the audiences in the dimension of their loss through significant and remarkable character development. This is to say that their performances are astounding, but much more important than that they don't feel like performances: they feel real. Though it may be hard to avoid getting into the field of sentimentalism, both actors manage to escape the melodrama and focus on what is real: going to work every day, cleaning the house, going to group therapy, baking, playing squash, reading… In the process there is an intrinsic desire to confront the situation, but it's too hard. It becomes physically painful and intellectually devastating. Men and women are different to the extent of physical appearance since when it boils down to the bare essential, the human being just wants one thing: to cope with their existence. It's not about sex, procreating, loving… it's accepting that people die. I gave it 6 stars. Dale Haufrect

After recently watching Nicole Kidman in her Oscar winning role in The Hours, I thought I Would give this film a try and boy did it disappoint. I kind of detected something in the first 15-20 minutes but I'm not 100% sure what. It might have been that nothing significant had occurred and by the end of this wishy washy melodrama, that seemed to be the case. Kidman plays a mother who had recently lost her 4 year old son in an accident and how she and her husband Howie (Aaron Eckhart) try to move on from the grief. Perhaps the biggest disappointment of this film was my expectation that it was going to be a truly tragic movie but the only thing tragic about this movie was how it was made, the acting was at a passable level, most notably by Nicole Kidman and débutante Miles Teller who has quite a future in the business. But let's get on to the script, if there was one, it could have fooled me as the plot seemed like it was going nowhere, parts of the film seem forced whether it be the advancing of the story, the emotions from the actors, delivery of lines, etc. I was expecting this movie to be sad, say a Ghost level sad but instead, this movie made me as sad as watching Up in the Air. Parts of this film seemed inappropriate as there were a couple of weakly delivered jokes, if you can call them that. Last time I checked, wasn't this supposed to be a drama. Over-acted to a certain degree, pointless and disconnecting as I felt no connection to any of the characters whatsoever.