With the gender-bending
Hedwig and the Angry Inch and the sexually upfront
Shortbus, director John Cameron Mitchell proved he was thrillingly unafraid of being explicit. But his third feature, an adaptation of David Lindsay-Abaire's play
Rabbit Hole, finds him embracing subtlety without sacrificing his taste for the melodramatic.
The movie stars Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart as Becca and Howie, a couple grieving the death of their young son months after a traffic accident took his life. They are each floundering in their own way -- Becca has mostly cut herself off from people, while Howie ends most days watching videos of their son on...
Released:
2010
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
92 mins