An awkward family man struggles to take care of his two daughters while his wife is fighting in Iraq. When tragedy strikes the family, he attempts to bond with his children and find the courage to tell them about their mother.
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John Cusack stars in this drama about a father of two who must learn how to communicate with his children after his soldier wife is killed. Stanley Phillips (Cusack) takes care of his two daughters, 12-year-old Heidi (Shélan O'Keefe) and her younger sister Dawn (Gracie Bednarczyk), while their mother, Grace, (Dana Lynne Gilhooley), is on a tour of duty in Iraq. When he receives news that Grace has been killed, Stanley is left alone and without a clue how to tell his daughters that their mother will not be coming home. Unable to face up to the situation, Stanley decides to take the girls on a road trip to an amusement park. Along the way, he finally finds a way to break the painful news to them.
The contemplative, understated tearjerker Grace Is Gone dramatizes the quiet crisis that befalls Stanley (John Cusack), a young Midwestern husband of a female marine stationed in Iraq, and a father of two girls. Suddenly and unexpectedly widowed when his wife, Grace, is killed on the battlefield, Stanley cannot bring himself to share the devastating news with his two young daughters. In lieu of speaking to them immediately about their mother's death, Stanley internalizes his devastation and takes the girls on a road trip while he attempts to sort through a myriad of conflicted and tumultuous internal feelings about the war itself and contemplates how to break the shattering news. Inevitably, the road trip will end with Grace's funeral. This film represents the brainchild of producer/star Cusack and writer/director James C. Strouse. It began with Cusack's fury about the Bush administration's policy banning footage of caskets returning from the Iraq and Afghani wars, and his desire to see those events played out onscreen, in the lives of American citizens.
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