That was an excellent one.

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

"Rabbit Hole" is not going to be a movie for everyone. It is "slow" by any standard, there isn't a lot of resolution present, and the tone is quite somber throughout. What the film does feature, however, are some of the best acting performances you will ever see, as well as a unflinching look at grief and how one couple try to cope with it.For a basic plot summary, "Rabbit Hole" focuses on Becca (Nicole Kidman) & Howie (Aaron Eckhart), a couple who lost their young son in a terrible accident. Each try to cope with that grief in their own way, with Becca turning to family--especially mother Nat (Dianne Wiest), who suffered a similar tragedy in the family--even when anger is the usual resolution, and Howie potentially finding solace in new group therapy partner Gabby (Sandra Oh). Becca also even goes so far as to stay in contact with Jason (Miles Teller), the perpetrator of the tragedy. Will they continue to drift apart, though neither of them truly want that to happen, or will they find some way to reconcile their grief and make things work?At some point in everyone's life, they will experience intense grief or a tragedy of some kind. Life makes this almost inevitable. After these tragedies occurs, there usually comes a point where life takes one of two paths: You either fully live within the grief, or you decide to try and move forward, even in small ways. That is what "Rabbit Hole" is all about. Becca & Howie are at that stage where "something needs to happen", yet neither person knows exactly what that is or how they should proceed. This makes for some incredible, emotional, and also rather difficult material throughout the movie.A film like this will either be made or broken by the acting performances, and fortunately they all shine here. In all honesty, this is some of the best acting I have ever seen on screen. Considering that the movie is only about 90-some minutes long, I consider it quite a feat that I was completely and utterly invested in the characters by the end. While it takes a good idea and a good script to do that too, just as much credit should be given to the emotional performances.Like all of us, I have experienced grief both myself and inside my family, and thus I found myself very much relating to what the principals here were going through. Grief is a confusing, sad, and confounding thing, which is why "Rabbit Hole" is so powerful and melancholy at the same time. I found that to be a fascinating and riveting mix.Overall, "Rabbit Hole" won't go down as one of my all-time favorite single films. Its scope isn't big enough for that. What I will remember it for, however, is its ability to accurately and emotional portray a realistic rendering of the grief and mourning process. If you don't mind a slower-paced film, and one filled with often conflicting emotions, "Rabbit Hole" will be a sort of unheralded gem for you to add to your film-watching experience.

The Rabbit Hole is based on the play by the same name. Oscar winner Nicole Kidman acts and also produced the film. She plays Becca, a mother grieving the loss of her four year old son. Her husband Howie is played well by Aaron Eckhart. Dianne Weist plays a grieving grandmother and mother. Becca and Howie have to cope and survive with life after their loss. The performances here are all done by professional actors and actresses. The film is a low budget project where characters are more important than special effects. Filmed surprisingly on location in New York City and Queens, the film tells a story of surviving and baby steps to getting forward.

After recently watching Nicole Kidman in her Oscar winning role in The Hours, I thought I Would give this film a try and boy did it disappoint. I kind of detected something in the first 15-20 minutes but I'm not 100% sure what. It might have been that nothing significant had occurred and by the end of this wishy washy melodrama, that seemed to be the case. Kidman plays a mother who had recently lost her 4 year old son in an accident and how she and her husband Howie (Aaron Eckhart) try to move on from the grief. Perhaps the biggest disappointment of this film was my expectation that it was going to be a truly tragic movie but the only thing tragic about this movie was how it was made, the acting was at a passable level, most notably by Nicole Kidman and débutante Miles Teller who has quite a future in the business. But let's get on to the script, if there was one, it could have fooled me as the plot seemed like it was going nowhere, parts of the film seem forced whether it be the advancing of the story, the emotions from the actors, delivery of lines, etc. I was expecting this movie to be sad, say a Ghost level sad but instead, this movie made me as sad as watching Up in the Air. Parts of this film seemed inappropriate as there were a couple of weakly delivered jokes, if you can call them that. Last time I checked, wasn't this supposed to be a drama. Over-acted to a certain degree, pointless and disconnecting as I felt no connection to any of the characters whatsoever.

I have to preface this review by saying I only watched the first 20 minutes. While part of me says it's not fair to do that, a bigger part of me says that if you fall at the first hurdle you fall at the first hurdle. If I only lasted 20 minutes then it is bound to be the same for others and therefore I think my comments are as valid as any and it is only fair to warn people.I have to say that I was bored before the opening credits ended. We see a well heeled woman planting plants in her well heeled garden in a well heeled suburb. This is all so bourgeois I have emotionally tuned out already. Inside her perfect house we meet her well heeled husband, improbably called Howie of all things. The husband is played by Aaron Eckhard who is just hopelessly miscast - he seems like someone who just popped out of a GI Joe action figure mold and it is just impossible to imagine him in a loving husband role. Neither the wife nor husband seem to actually do anything although she sometimes drives round her perfect neighbourhood in her perfect car. After a while we learn that their son was killed in a tragic accident 8 months ago, but really, sad as that might be, we just can't feel a shred of sympathy for these perfect people. They go to support group meetings where people say ridiculous things like "I guess God must have wanted another angel". While to her credit the woman finds this as stupid as I did, it is hard to comprehend the point of this within the movie. After 8 months the woman will still not have sex with her husband, but again we really don't care, because, do people like this actually exist? We are introduced to the wife's neer-do-well sister, someone even less likable than the central characters, hard as that is to believe. The sister is pregnant and although I did not see the conclusion of this little angle it seemed fairly obvious this would be source of friction, guilt and jealousy between the two, something that appealed to me about as much as eating glass shards.And that's about as far as I got folks. I will never know why they called it "The Rabbit Hole", but I can live with that for the sake of my mental health. May you enjoy it more than I did....