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Grace Is Gone is a american film of genre Drama released in USA on 21 january 2007 with John Cusack
Grace Is Gone (2008)
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Add to a movie listGrace Is Gone is a 2007 drama film starring John Cusack as a father who cannot bring himself to tell his two daughters that their mother, a soldier in the American army, has just been killed on a tour of duty in Iraq. On January 29, 2007, it won the Audience Award for Drama at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.
The film was produced by Plum Pictures and New Crime Productions and purchased by Harvey Weinstein for distribution by The Weinstein Company. Weinstein announced plans to mount an Academy Award campaign on behalf of Cusack.
This also marks the first time Clint Eastwood composed the score for a film which he did not write, direct or star in.
Synopsis
Stanley Phillips is a middle-aged Army veteran caring for his two daughters, 12-year-old Heidi and 8-year-old Dawn, while his wife, Grace, serves in Iraq. One afternoon, two Army officers visit his home and inform him that Grace has been killed in combat. In shock, Stanley dreads having to tell his daughters of their mother's death. When they arrive home from school, he takes them out to dinner and plans to tell them afterward. Unable to, he instead decides to take them to Enchanted Gardens, a theme park in Florida that the girls have been wanting to visit for some time.Actors
John Cusack
(Stanley Philipps)
Alessandro Nivola
(John Philipps)
Marisa Tomei
(Woman at Pool)
Rebecca Spence
(Second Woman)
Mary Kay Place
(Woman at Funeral)
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