This film is kind of a downer, about a family that lost their young child in a car accident. Very good acting by Nicole Kidman and Arron Eckart. Nicoles mother had also lost her son (her brother) so they could attempt to comfort each other. Not a film you want to watch if you need a pick me up. Nicole secretly seeks out the high school student who killed her child. Arron develops a friendship with a woman at group therapy, partly due to his wife’s emotional state and having grown apart since their sons death. The two stories parallel each other as ways of trying to cope with their loss. Lots of emotion here if you let it affect you which it did me but not quite enough to shed a tear. Would have been more effected if I lost a child. In the end they resolve to sort of fake it and take life one moment at a time, as you never forget something that traumatic you just get on with life. A depressing story and for that reason three stars.
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