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By Cindy Davis | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (17)

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Rabbit Hole is the latest from John Cameron Mitchell ( Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Shortbus) and it looks to be ripe for the end of year Oscar grab, with rich performances from Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart - but who the hell wants to see it? The story is simple: a happy couple’s (Kidman, Eckhart) world is shattered when their young son is killed in a car accident. If you’ve seen one movie couple lose a child, isn’t that enough (Ordinary People destroyed me)? I suppose if someone is going through the situation himself, there could be insight within such a film, but there must be other people who are interested. What’s the draw? Seeing if Nicole’s Botox wore off yet? Aaron Eckhart looks hotter than ever but doesn’t the horrible subject matter cancel out the hotness? Is it cool to be marveling over his jawline or checking out his ass while a man is crying over his dead son? And in the end, there are only a couple of ways things can go - ride the wave through the stages of grief and either come together or pull apart. Just like in the real world, there will be crying and laughing and surviving.

Help me out here people, watch the trailer and tell me what in the hell would make you go see this movie other than a need to clean out your sinuses?


Rabbit Hole also stars Diane Wiest, Sandra Oh and Jon Tenny and opens December 17, 2010. Grab some popcorn or slit your wrists; it’s your call.









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Comments

Um, yeah. I don't need to see a couple grieving over a dead child to clean out my sinuses.

Stories like:
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/pawprintpost/post/2010/10/miracle-stray-dog-walks-again-after-monstrous-cruelty/1

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/21/philip-spooner-video-wwii_n_329446.html


do just f-f-f-fine, thanks. /sob

Posted by: Stella at October 25, 2010 5:30 PM

That has got to be one of the worst song selections for a trailer that I have ever heard. Blarrgh.

Posted by: Lauren at October 25, 2010 5:53 PM

it looks interesting for me but Kidman's lips are very entertaining

Posted by: caro at October 25, 2010 6:20 PM

It's also a play... and it sells really well. The company I was working for last year staged it and they did really well, because the play is actually kind of humorous.

Posted by: Claire Allison at October 25, 2010 6:22 PM

Let's get depressed for Christmas!!

Posted by: nat at October 25, 2010 6:40 PM

I was going to say that it is unimaginable, losing a child like that, then I remembered that I KNOW some people who very recently lost their 13 yo son in an internationally televised motorcycle race. They are friends of my friends, but I met them shortly (as in a week after the service) after the loss, and despite an insane media circus and some of the cruelest commentary imaginable in the media and online, these people are handling it incredibly well. I actually didn't realize they were the same people my friends had been telling me about the first time we met, they were so upbeat and 'normal'. Such grace and strength amazes me, and I have seen it first hand, I don't really believe a movie could be more inspiring. I still wouldn't see this movie on a bet though, despite the terriffic cast. I cry enough as it is. I identified a little too much with the "standing transfixed" moments Kidman had in that trailer already.

Posted by: Lindsey with an 'e' at October 25, 2010 6:46 PM

but who the hell wants to see it?

I saw the stageplay thrice on Broadway and have seen Hedwig and the Angry Inch more times than I can count. I faced the embarrassment of my students seeing me walk into "that sex film" Shortbus and still enjoyed myself. I'm big on John Cameron Mitchell as a conceptualizer/director and like all but one person I recognize in the cast.

There is an audience for this film, as there was an audience for the play. That is the audience that wants to see good acting explode (simmer? twinkle? it's not a big boomy play) on the screen. We hear about "career best" or "best debut in years" and flock (filter? they usually aren't blockbusters) to the theater to see it. Plus, it might mean my Nicole Kidman falls back into the good graces of America after stealin...winning that Academy Award.

Posted by: Robert at October 25, 2010 7:01 PM

I saw it on stage a few years ago with Cynthia Nixon and John Slattery, and it was really great. I would have preferred Cynthia to Nicole, but I'm interested in how it turns out.

Posted by: Dorothy Snarker at October 25, 2010 7:25 PM

i thought it looked stupid until i saw eckhart hugging the dog and crying. dammit!

Posted by: glittergirl at October 25, 2010 7:38 PM

It is one of the most beautiful plays written within the past ten years, so hopefully that translates to screen. If so, it will be an easy sell based solely on the wonderful writing.

Posted by: M. Martin at October 25, 2010 11:41 PM

My little brother died four months ago. I don't know why I watched the trailer, but I did.

It's hard to judge a movie based on a trailer, but just the little bit I saw of it makes the experience seem a whole lot lighter than it really is.

Posted by: DominaNefret at October 26, 2010 12:30 AM

I couldn't even get through the whole thing. Ick.

If you’ve seen one movie couple lose a child, isn’t that enough (Ordinary People destroyed me)

Amen Rowles, this is such a powerful movie (and book) that it kind of overrides any other loss of child film I've seen since. And I just plain love Timothy Hutton (his dad Jim was in one of my guilty pleasures, Where the Boys Are and so I will forever love Timmy).

DominaNefret I'm sure you're tired of this but I'm really sorry about your brother. I can't even imagine.

Posted by: grace b at October 26, 2010 1:18 AM

I'd rather slowly unravel both my testicles with Edward Scissorhands than watch this. I have enough nightmares about my kid dying without Butt Chin and Sad Wind-Tunnel Clown bringing it to life in front of me.

Posted by: Kballs at October 26, 2010 8:02 AM

I read this play and loved it on paper. I watched the trailer with the sound off (I'm at work) and it didn't look like it featured the sister at all, which is disappointing. I hope she's in the movie. I'll probably Netflix this b/c I don't imagine anyone I know will want to see it in the theatre.
I actually thought Nicole Kidman looked better than she has in awhile...the plastic surgery appears to be less obvious now except when she's crying.

Posted by: Whorish Mouth at October 26, 2010 9:15 AM

I'm so sorry, DominaNefret.

Posted by: Cindy at October 26, 2010 10:08 AM

"I have enough nightmares about my kid dying without Butt Chin and Sad Wind-Tunnel Clown bringing it to life in front of me."

Amen, Kballs!

Posted by: mr friendly at October 26, 2010 12:58 PM

I've read the play several times, too (I actually bought it) and also wish it was Cynthia Nixon in the movie - because I like the automatic defensiveness she brings to most parts, which keeps things from becoming maudlin. This...feels a little maudlin. It didn't feel too light to me. Nicole Kidman didn't excite me with the performance in the trailer.

The play's got some neat juxtapositions in terms of phases of life and death, and I think it touches on the idea of how alone we feel in our own grief - that no one else can possibly be feeling as terrible as we are at any given moment. How some people want to be so precise with their feelings that they block other people's empathy. (Yes, I know someone like that in real life, and yes, I'm sick of it)

Sandra Oh's character looked pregnant. Maybe JCM really wanted her in it and changed the flaky sister to a flaky friend.

Posted by: Sara Tonin at October 26, 2010 1:07 PM