Dir: John Cameron Mitchell
February 2011
This review was written for Watch Out For
Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning play by David-Lindsay Abaire, Rabbit Hole is a study in grief, in loss, in marriage and in family.
It’s eight months after the tragic death of their young son Danny, and Becca (Nicole Kidman) and Howie (Aaron Eckhart) Corbett are struggling to move forward. Dinners with friends are shrugged off; their son’s bedroom remains untouched, Becca easily snaps at her family; mother Nat (Dianne Weist) and sister Izzy (Tammy Blanchard), and Howie can barely kiss his wife without her retreating.
It isn’t long before Becca refuses to continue going to their couples’ therapy group, and husband and wife take separate paths to try healing their wounds. Becca begins meeting up with Jason (Miles Teller), the teenager who swerved his car from hitting the Corbett’s dog and instead hit their child. Howie takes comfort in a friendship formed through their therapy group, with Gaby (Sandra Oh) who, along with her husband, has been in therapy for eight years.
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