Review of Grace Is Gone (2007) by Mel S — 04 Jan 2010

Stanley is a very strict dad whose wife is serving as a soldier in Iraq. Stanley stays at home and takes care of the two daughters. Even though Stanley is a strict dad, he is also a very good dad who would never purposely hurt his kids. Then when the two girls are at school and Stanley is at work there are two men at the door and soon Stanley is alone and wondering how to tell his daughters about Grace. He tries to sit them down and then take them out to eat but the movie then becomes a road trip to an amusement park. I think he took them to Enchanted Gardens is because he needed the time to figure out how to tell the girls about their mother. I also think that he took them to the amusement park so that they would have a happy memory no matter how bizarre that sounds. This movie is a good tearjerker.

The biggest thing about this film is that the music is supervised by Clint Eastwood. Like, Dirty Harry "Make my day" Clint Eastwood I kid you not. Nice move there Clint, you supervised the music really well. It?s sad, emotional, riveting, wonderful, glorious and magical. This short 80 minute film delivers. It?s satisfying.

But I did have a couple of problems with the movie though. When Cusack takes the family to his mother's house, where was she? Is it just the uncle who lives there? And I found the oldest daughter to be quite disturbed, even before her mother passed away.