# Directors: James C. Strouse
# Rating: PG-13
# Studio: Weinstein Company
# DVD Release Date: May 27, 2008
# Run Time: 84 minutes

# Actors: John Cusack, Alessandro Nivola, Gracie Bednarczyk, Shélan O’Keefe

Though 2007 saw a flood of Iraq-related films GRACE IS GONE takes a different approach from many of the others. Unlike REDACTED and LIONS FOR LAMBS this directorial debut from screenwriter James C. Strouse (LONESOME JIM) doesn’t focus on the conflict itself. Instead the drama looks at how the death of a female soldier affects her family at home. John Cusack (1408) is Stanley Phillips a husband and father who waits while his wife Grace is off serving in Iraq. When he learns of her death he can’t bear to tell his two daughters the news. To postpone the inevitable the normally staid father proposes a spontaneous road trip to his girls and the three set off for the fun of an amusement park called Enchanted Gardens.

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