Brothers is a movie with a lot of emotional turmoil. It is a story about Tommy (Jake Gyllenhaal) who comforts his siter-in-law (Natalie Portman) and her children after his brother Sam (Toby Maguire) goes missing in Afghanistan. The family holds a funeral, and his wife and girls begin to move on, with a sober Tommy subbing, convincingly, as a husbandly and fatherly surrogate. He and Grace (Natalie Portman) just kissed but that's enough to drive the second half of the movie into madness. As it happens, Sam is very much alive, a hostage of aggrieved, camcorder-wielding Afghan fighters. While he and a private are subjected to mind-bending terror in Afghanistan, we're being tortured at home. Every time, the film cuts from the devastated look on Maguire's face to a scene of Gyllenhaal frolicking with the two girls or getting high with Portman, it's like being splashed with frigid water. Brothers is a remake of a 2004 Danish drama, directed and co-written by Susanne Bier. It is a must watch!=)
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