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Title: Brothers (2009)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Tobey Maguire | ... | Capt. Sam Cahill | |
| Jake Gyllenhaal | ... | Tommy Cahill | |
| Natalie Portman | ... | Grace Cahill | |
| Sam Shepard | ... | Hank Cahill | |
| Mare Winningham | ... | Elsie Cahill | |
| Bailee Madison | ... | Isabelle Cahill | |
| Taylor Geare | ... | Maggie Cahill | |
| Patrick John Flueger | ... | Private Joe Willis (as Patrick Flueger) | |
| Clifton Collins Jr. | ... | Major Cavazos | |
| Carey Mulligan | ... | Cassie Willis | |
| Omid Abtahi | ... | Yusuf | |
| Navid Negahban | ... | Murad | |
| Ethan Suplee | ... | Sweeney | |
| Arron Shiver | ... | A.J. | |
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Ray Prewitt | ... | Owen |
Before leaving on his second tour in Afghanistan, Marine Captain Sam Cahill, a leader, an athlete, a good husband and father, welcomes his screw-up brother Tommy home from prison. He'd robbed a bank. In country, Sam's helicopter is shot down and all are presumed dead. Back home, while Sam wastes away as a prisoner in a remote encampment, Tommy tries to take care of the widow and her two children. While imprisoned, Sam experiences horrors unbearable, so when he's rescued and returns home, he's silent, detached, without affect, and he's convinced his wife and brother have slept together. Demons of war possess him; what will silence them? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
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Two brothers, one returning from prison, one heading as a Marine to Afghanistan.
This film is apparently a remake of a Danish film that had the same story line.
But it didn't have Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal! Maguire reaches into the darkest corners of his soul to flesh out the good brother, the Marine, who returns from Afghanistan with a staggering burden of guilt.
Gyllenhaal is amazing, transforming an angry, unsure ex-con into a believable figure of redemption, slowly growing before our eyes as the story unfolds.
Natalie Portman is excellent and look for Carey Mulligan's four minutes of screen time.
This is not an anti-war film except in the sense that any film that shows war either glorifies it unrealistically or jars us into questioning, if it is realistic. The scenes in Afghanistan seem authentic. The tortures are not so so graphic as some of the other reviews imply. They will cause you to wince, but its good film making, not microscopic detail.
I want to search out Susanne Bier's 2005 film "Broedre"--it can't lessen the impact of this one, however.