Rabbit Hole
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Aaron Eckhart, Dianne Wiest, Miles Teller, Tammy Blanchard, Sandra Oh
Rabbit Hole is a vivid, hopeful, honest and unexpectedly witty portrait
of a family searching for what remains possible in the most impossible
of all situations.
Becca and Howie Corbett (Nicole Kidman and Aaron
Eckhart) are returning to their everyday existence in the wake of a
shocking, sudden loss. Just eight months ago, they were a happy suburban
family with everything they wanted. Now, they are caught in a maze of
memory, longing, guilt, recrimination, sarcasm and tightly controlled
rage from which they cannot escape. While Becca finds pain in the
familiar, Howie finds comfort.
The shifts come in abrupt,
unforeseen moments. Becca hesitantly opens up to her opinionated, loving
mother (Dianne Wiest) and secretly reaches out to the teenager involved
in the accident that changed everything (Miles Teller); while Howie
lashes out and imagines solace with another woman (Sandra Oh). Yet, as
off track as they are, the couple keeps trying to find their way back to
a life that still holds the potential for beauty, laughter and
happiness. The resulting journey is an intimate glimpse into two people
learning to re-engage with each other and a world that has been tilted
off its axis.
