Watch the new trailer for Rabbit Hole starring Nicole Kidman, Aaron Eckhart, and one of my personal favorites, Dianne Weist! The film is based upon on the 2005 award-winning play and is directed by John Cameron Mitchell (a total departure from his previous films, Hedwig and The Angry Inch and Shortbus). The performances look amazing (perhaps Oscar worthy?) but it’s bound to be an emotionally devastating film, I must see it for myself (with some tissues handy) when it opens on December 17th! Popbytes over and out … xoxo!
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.
