Synopsis
A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the family cope and confront their loss.
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Cast
- Halle BerryAudrey Burke
- Benicio del ToroJerry Sunborne
- David DuchovnySteven Burke
- Alison LohmanKelly
- Omar Benson MillerNeal
- John Carroll LynchHoward Glassman
- Alexis LlewellynHarper Burke
- Micah BerryDory Burke
- Sarah DubrovskySpring
- Liam JamesCousin Dave
Recommendations
- 89
Austin Chronicle
In the end this movie belongs to Del Toro. He imbues Jerry with such life, such ambiguity, such unsentimental complexity and depth that you can’t help but feel you’re watching the most intricately mapped depiction of addiction and strained humanity the film world has ever given us. - 88
ReelViews
Emotionally challenging and honest. - 75
Chicago Tribune
Things We Lost in the Fire finds Bier at an interesting juncture, half-Dogmatic, half traditionalist. - 75
Rolling Stone
Del Toro is the movie's force field. This is a performance you will not forget. - 75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The only downside is that Bier's vision of upper-middle-class America does not always seem authentic. - 67
The A.V. Club
Well-acted yet strangely inert, Fire explores the messy human emotions of grief, but it'd be a lot more resonant if the guy everyone's mourning weren't so fatally perfect, so unforgivably superhuman. - 60
Variety
A live-wire performance by Benicio Del Toro sparks an otherwise morose study of loss, addiction and catharsis. - 58
Entertainment Weekly
No matter what panache Bier adds, Things We Lost is still a TV-scaled tear-duct drama about a beautiful woman who pushes past sadness in her House & Garden home.
