Watch: Grace Is Gone 2007 123movies, Full Movie Online – Stan Philipps’s wife Grace is a sergeant with the U.S. Army. While she’s posted to Iraq, the earnest Stan is home in Minnesota with their daughters, Heidi, 12, and Dawn, 8. He manages a home supply store. After morning visitors bring Stan news, he takes the girls for a car ride that turns into a spontaneous trip to Dawn’s favorite place, a Florida amusement park. On the way, they stop at Stan’s mother’s house, where his brother is staying. Heidi is an insomniac, who tries to fathom her father’s uncharacteristic behavior. Dawn is cheerfully unreflective. They have fun at the park. Stan summons his courage..
Plot: Upon hearing his wife was killed in the Iraq war, a father takes his two daughters on a road trip, all the while searching for the right time and place to tell them about their mother’s fate.
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A good film that could have been great.
I saw this at the Traverse City Film Festival.Grace is Gone stars John Cusack as a husband whose wife has just been killed in Iraq. He doesn’t have the courage to tell his two young daughters that their mother has died, so instead he decides to take them on a road trip, perhaps not to just make it easier on the girls but to make it easier for himself.
This film was pretty good but I felt it was flat at parts and some tears were forced. It didn’t have as much emotion as I thought it would have. John Cusack does a great job acting in the film, but most of the time his character is just trying to hide the sadness from his daughters. Some scenes drag on and others don’t seem to really fit in with the rest of the story.
My favorite scene in the film takes place in a store and involves the younger daughter wandering off on her own. The scene is so subtle and the drama isn’t as obvious as other parts in the film, but it’s quite an emotional scene. I wish the rest of the film had moments like that.
Politics aren’t really discussed much in the film, at least not as much as I thought there was going to be. However, when it does, it goes with the typical cliché of family members differing in beliefs and trying to get their own point across. People will probably be interested in this film because of the subject matter and the modern storyline, but apart from the cause of death of the wife, the war is never really mentioned. In a way, that’s why this film doesn’t work at times. Apart from the one scene with his anti-war brother, Cusack’s character never gets a chance to express his emotions and regrets because he’s always with his children.
Nonetheless, as a film about a father trying to reveal to his children the death of their mother, it’s a good film. But if you’re seeing the film because it involves the war in Iraq, you’ll be disappointed because the war is hardly mentioned.
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 25 min (85 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Drama, War
Director Jim Strouse
Writer Jim Strouse
Actors John Cusack, Emily Churchill, Rebecca Spence
Country United States
Awards 4 wins & 7 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix SDDS, Dolby Digital, DTS
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Astro Color Lab, Chicago (IL), USA, Filmworkers Club, Chicago, USA
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm (Fuji Eterna 250T 8553, Eterna 250D 8563, Eterna 500T 8573)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (master format), Super 35 (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (spherical) (Fuji Eterna-CP 3513DI)