GRACE IS GONE
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John Cusack turns in an understated performance as Stanley Phillips, a pro-war Republican family man stalling for time with his daughters to tell them that their career soldier mother Grace was killed in Iraq.
Stanley takes his 12-year-old daughter Heidi (Shelan O'Keefe) and 8-year-old Dawn (Grace Bednarczyk) on a road trip to their favorite Florida theme park to bond with the girls before breaking the news.
Stanley gradually comes out of his denial and accepts the responsibility of being a single father.
Screenwriter James C. Strouse makes an able if flat directorial debut with a simple wartime drama that needed more dimension.
This is what a movie without subplots looks like.
Rated PG-13. 85 mins.
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