Most recently watched by jakeneff, sensoria
When his helicopter goes down during his fourth tour of duty in Afghanistan, Marine Sam Cahill is presumed dead. Back home, brother Tommy steps in to look over Sam’s wife, Grace, and two children. Sam’s surprise homecoming triggers domestic mayhem.
Rated R | Length 105 minutes
Jake Gyllenhaal | Natalie Portman | Ethan Suplee | Tobey Maguire | Clifton Collins, Jr. | Sam Shepard | Jenny Wade | Carey Mulligan | Mare Winningham | Luce Rains | Bailee Madison | Bill Allen | Navid Negahban | Arron Shiver | Patrick John Flueger | Yousuf Azami | Omid Abtahi | Chad Brummett | Carrie Fleming | Sheila Ivy Traister | Jeremiah Bitsui | Taylor Geare | Ray Prewitt | James D. Dever | Kevin Wiggins | Eric Steinig | Jason E. Hill | Johnnie Hector | David Manzanares | Rebekah Wiggins | Shawn Bryant | Enayat Delawary | Rick La Monda | Michael-David Aragon | J.D. Marmion | Iris Dunbar | Kevin Adkins | Benjamin D. Baldwin | Richard Wade | Paul Ramos | Oscar Mejia | David Bachelor | Zachary Grand | Robert Mitchell | Collin D. Barry | Janet Sanford | Casey Sanford | Gary Moore | Colleen Frye | James Duffy | Michael Castellano | Carol A. Salazar | Wendell Sweet
I put off watching this for a long while based on the trailer I’d seen, which really turned me off. I thought it was going to be a love triangle gone wrong with the war as a backdrop.
Turns out it’s a complex, character-driven film with a lot of depth to it. All three primary actors, Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal and Natalie Portman, do outstanding jobs here.
Little Bailee Madison, who plays one of Portman’s two daughters, does an especially excellent job. She ran through a complex range of emotions, often via facial expressions, and sometimes in the background of a scene, that would’ve been tough for a lot of adult actresses to pull off.
I really loved Portman’s character here too. She’s an excellent actress, so happy she got an Oscar for Black Swan.
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