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Things We Lost in the Fire
Directed by
Susanne Bier
R
2007
1h 53m
Drama
7.1
65%
73%
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A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the family cope and confront their loss.
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Cast of Things We Lost in the Fire
Halle Berry
Audrey Burke
Benicio del Toro
Jerry Sunborne
David Duchovny
Steven Burke
Alison Lohman
Kelly
Omar Benson Miller
Neal
John Carroll Lynch
Howard Glassman
Alexis Llewellyn
Harper Burke
Micah Berry
Dory Burke
Sarah Dubrovsky
Spring
Liam James
Cousin Dave
Quinn Lord
Cousin Joel
Robin Weigert
Brenda
Paula Newsome
Diane
Maureen Thomas
Grandma Ginnie Burke
Patricia Harras
Howard's Wife
Vincent Foster
Distressed Man
Susanne Bier
Director
Allan Loeb
Writer
Sam Mercer
Producer
Sam Mendes
Producer
Barbara Kelly
Producer
Things We Lost in the Fire Ratings & Reviews
MSNBC
Alonso Duralde
Where the film's ambitions crumble is in its avowed refusal to make its audience too uncomfortable.
I.E. Weekly
Amy Nicholson
Scheduled blowups and symbolic dreams and interminable tears until we all feel like we've learned a little something about loss: We want our two hours back.
Lessons of Darkness
Nick Schager
Often as overwrought as it is heartrending.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
Things We Lost in the Fire is certainly not a comedy, but it is definitely mordant with its two Big Themes: Loss and Addiction, both treated in a singularly heavy-handed manner, for which I blame primarily Mr. Loeb's screenplay.
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Berry gives a riveting performance, but as a deeply decent man trapped in a hell of his own making, Del Toro gives the kind of career performance Berry gave in Monster's Ball.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
It's very strong.
Screentalk
Brian Tallerico
Things We Lost in the Fire could have easily turned into chest-thumping and wailing for two hours, but it's a lot more than that.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The movie is an engrossing melodrama, and it has its heart in the right place.
Austin Chronicle
Josh Rosenblatt
[Benicio Del Toro's] managed to top even himself; this most recent performance is right up there with the best screen turns, not just of his generation but of all time.
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
Things We Lost in the Fire veers away from the real and hard and toward the fantastic.
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Its deliberate pacing may put some viewers off, as will the bleakness of the subject matter, but it's worth seeing, mostly to soak up the complex shades of Del Toro's performance.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
A wistful and often lovely film.
San Francisco Chronicle
Walter V. Addiego
[Director] Bier knows the difference between drama and melodrama.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
This movie is the most irritating example yet of how both film and TV have taken to shooting even the phoniest, soapiest stories with that drunken, shaky, ultra- close-up camerawork that says, 'Hey, look at us! We're being all documentaryish!'
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Though it is erratic and can come off as manufactured, this film has the gift of gathering strength as it goes on. It harnesses the talents of stars Halle Berry and Benicio Del Toro in ways that ultimately make us sit up and take notice.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
Though it flirts with melodrama to the tipping point, the movie, like the characters played by Berry and her costar Benicio Del Toro, ultimately makes connections too honest, hopeful and human to induce guilt on the part of any open-hearted moviegoer.
Dallas Morning News
Chris Vognar
A supple and angular story of grief.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
Bier is one of the cinema's most acute observers of intimate relations, her Scandinavian reserve muting the inherent melodrama of her material, and she draws piercing, modestly scaled performances.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
[Benicio Del Toro's] is the only character with human flaws, and in a movie perfect people tend to be boring.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Del Toro is the heart and soul, as well as the haunted, rubbery visage, of a story of grief and loss that would be fairly lifeless without him.
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