Rabbit Hole (2010)

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Becca Corbett	Nicole Kidman
Howie Corbett	Aaron Eckhart
Nat, Becca's mother	Dianne Wiest
Jason	Miles Teller
Izzy, Becca's sister	Tammy Blanchard
Gabby	Sandra Oh
Auggie	Giancarlo Esposito

Review

Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart play a couple who are in turmoil trying to deal with the accidental death of their 6-year old son. Miles Teller is the young man who hit the kid with his car. The film is well-meaning and at times poignant, with fine talents in the cast giving their all, but it also has an immature predictability to it that makes the film a semi-slave to the Hollywood grief process of self-help groups and throwing out clothes and toys. That being said, David Lindsay-Abaire's script (adapted from his own play) does successfully convey how there's always two aspects of everything, and whenever his ideas don't feel contrived (which they do with the Eckhart/Oh relation, but not with the layered Kidman/Wiest relation), Rabbit Hole is everything that a movie in this genre should be. You won't learn much, but you may be able to share Kidman and Eckhart's grief.