DipitySkillful an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Celia A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Syl The Rabbit Hole is based on the play by the same name. Oscar winner Nicole Kidman acts and also produced the film. She plays Becca, a mother grieving the loss of her four year old son. Her husband Howie is played well by Aaron Eckhart. Dianne Weist plays a grieving grandmother and mother. Becca and Howie have to cope and survive with life after their loss. The performances here are all done by professional actors and actresses. The film is a low budget project where characters are more important than special effects. Filmed surprisingly on location in New York City and Queens, the film tells a story of surviving and baby steps to getting forward.

bsbulldogs After recently watching Nicole Kidman in her Oscar winning role in The Hours, I thought I Would give this film a try and boy did it disappoint. I kind of detected something in the first 15-20 minutes but I'm not 100% sure what. It might have been that nothing significant had occurred and by the end of this wishy washy melodrama, that seemed to be the case. Kidman plays a mother who had recently lost her 4 year old son in an accident and how she and her husband Howie (Aaron Eckhart) try to move on from the grief. Perhaps the biggest disappointment of this film was my expectation that it was going to be a truly tragic movie but the only thing tragic about this movie was how it was made, the acting was at a passable level, most notably by Nicole Kidman and débutante Miles Teller who has quite a future in the business. But let's get on to the script, if there was one, it could have fooled me as the plot seemed like it was going nowhere, parts of the film seem forced whether it be the advancing of the story, the emotions from the actors, delivery of lines, etc. I was expecting this movie to be sad, say a Ghost level sad but instead, this movie made me as sad as watching Up in the Air. Parts of this film seemed inappropriate as there were a couple of weakly delivered jokes, if you can call them that. Last time I checked, wasn't this supposed to be a drama. Over-acted to a certain degree, pointless and disconnecting as I felt no connection to any of the characters whatsoever.

Catharina_Sweden This movie was a disappointment. I had expected it to be the usual Hollywood feel-good movie, with a sad subject to begin with but ending on some hopeful note. But except for the usual affluent people, living in a wonderful house with a big, beautiful garden in which the wife can potter about, this was not so at all.The movie was odd, dark, unrealistic, weird, boring, and without meaning. The idea of the mother befriending the teenage boy who (accidentaly) killed her child, and being jealous of his girl friends of his own age (if this was what the scene when she cried in the car outside his parents' house was supposed to mean) is especially weird. There is no real plot, and no real ending, either. The actors are very good, but they are wasted here.Maybe it has something to offer to people who have lost a child. I would not know about that (thankfully).

akash_sebastian The difficult endeavour of trying to cope with a loved one's loss is truly heart-wrenching and life-changing. This difficult journey is beautifully and elegantly portrayed in this movie. John Cameron Mitchell's first actual drama is a well-shot and well-directed adaptation of David Lindsay-Abaire's Pulitzer Prize-winning play (of the same name).Becca (Nicole) and Howie (Aaron) lost their their young 4-year-old son Danny eight months ago in a car accident, and they are still stuck in a maze of guilt, longing, regret, memory, pain, and rage, and a state of meaninglessness.It's mainly the stellar cast which boosts this strong emotional journey with their powerful acting. Talented actors like Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart give one of their best performances. Dianne Wiest and debutant Miles Tellar give moving and compelling portrayals of their supporting characters.Every person is different, and each one us have a different way of dealing with loss. Sometimes it drives people mad, sometimes they look for someone to blame, sometimes they blame themselves completely, sometimes they judge the way other people are dealing with it, sometimes it drives people apart, sometimes it brings people together, sometimes it drives people to question the very nature of life itself, and most of the times, it changes people forever.For me, the two scenes which really made an impact are: the argumentative confrontation between Becca and Howie in the living room, and the emotional confession of the teenage car-driver to Becca in the park. These scenes stand out because of their sheer brutal honesty.(Anyone who has lost a loved one will surely love this movie)