Good movie about the adjustment after the death of a 4 year old boy. The parents were played by Aaron Eckhart (howie) and Nicole Kidman (Becca). Nicole was perfectly cast in this film because there is always a veneer of iron clad tight assed control and restraint about her and the role in this movie called for exactly that.All the scenes were really believable and there was no hollywood soap opera overly-dramatic grief; just the quiet and periodically passively aggressive expressed anger and sorrow and pain.
The best scene was Becca's mom played wondefully by Dianne Wiest talking to her daughter about the evolution of grief. Wiest's 30 year old son (Becca's brother) died about 10 years previously and Wiest was answering Becca's question: "does it ever go away?" The short answer is no but it changes and becomes manageable and even in a wierd way, comforting because the changed 'brick' of grief becomes a substitute for the dead son.
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