Brothers
2009 (Jim Sheridan) 14A, 119 min
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman, Sam Shepard, Tobey Maguire
Grace (Portman), the mother of two young children, is widowed when her Marine husband, Sam (Maguire) is killed in Afghanistan. A military hero, Sam has always outshone his ne’er-do-well younger brother, Tommy (Gyllenhaal). However, after his brother’s death, Tommy rises to the occasion, providing comfort and support to his sister-in-law and her kids. Just as romance begins to blossom between Grace and Tommy, Sam returns home- not dead, as thought, but deeply damaged by his experience. “A heartbreaking film that speaks to the lifelong aftershocks of war,” says Steven Rea, and Richard Roeper calls it “the best movie of 2009” with Maguire giving “the performance of his career.”
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