Excellent acting - mainly by Nicole and her mother. I especially loved the soothing calm and demeanor of the mom. It manages grief so very well, without being melodramatic (almost always).Story unfolds in an intriguing manner...cracks up gradually...with no jerks. You know whats going on, yet it looks interesting, not so predictable

I didn't expect anything from this movie when i started watching. but it surprised me..it was hell of a movie...you really didn't get the chance to watch this kinda movie every now & then..the emotion in this movie was so in a perfect amount...first i thought it would be quite slow & boring but i wanted to watch it because of Nicole Kidman but after that i was really amazed by the plot & the genuineness of acting & find it quite interesting to watch. its a hopeful, honest and unexpectedly tricky portrait of a married couple getting along after the untimely death of their 4 year old son. i never preferred Aaron Eckhart that much but he was shockingly good in this movie and Nicole is definitely the balance point of this story because she was fighting her inner sentiment every moment...this is a very simple story represented extraordinarily...

This was pretty good, if somewhat painful to watch but made better by an above average cast. The story itself doesn't have many arcs, its unrelentingly gloomy, following a middle class couple 8 months after the death of their young son who was hit by a car while chasing their dog into the street.The grief displayed by Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart is raw and well portrayed in its many forms as the couple shun friends and neighbours while the icy 'Becca' tries to banish memories of her deceased son by disposing of his possessions and Howie lives in the past. They attend group therapy (together for a while) and Howie befriends the (pot smoking) Sandra Oh. Becca in turn secretly meets with the driver of the car that killed Danny and tries to come to terms with her sisters impending birth and her mothers own loss.This is a couple barely hanging on, its powerful and raw, often painful to watch but worth the effort for the convincing performances.I loved all the leads in this; Sandra Oh, Aaron Eckhart and Nicole Kidman always does a great job. In sub roles Dianne Wiest was fantastic and nice to see Giancarlo Esposito with his entire face. 10/5/16

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).