Review of Rabbit Hole (2010) by Tomas T — 28 Oct 2011

The picture perfect life of Corbett's shatters with their son's death. Rabbit Hole takes on a challenging subject where Becca (Nicole Kidman) and Howie (Aaron Eckhart) have to deal with the most extreme loss of em all, the death of a child.

The movie can be divided into three separable sections.Two of them following Becca's and Howie's personal experiences and how they deal with their loss individually while the third focuses on their marriage and difficulties of moving on. While Howie relies on group therapy and logic, Becca bottles up the emotions and seeks equilibrium by facing the person responsible for the their son's death. The loss of a child must be unimaginable hard and the director John Cameron Mitchell with the help of main stars (Kidman and Eckhart) succeed in delivering the emotional chaos sure to follow such tragedy with mixed results.

The movie is highlighted by few really good scenes in which the lead stars, especially Aaron Eckhart truly lets emotions flow and grasp the viewers attention fully. Sadly scenes like these are few and far between and most of the movie is very slow paced and depressing. The subject alone of course justifies the two, but besides the few scenes, the movie fails to really emotionally touch you. The Rabbit Hole no doubt is a decent drama movie but it fails to deliver the feeling of loss through the screen.