Rabbit Hole (2010) - Kidman and Eckhart shine in Mitchell's excellent drama

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1 Film Excess win:

Best Supporting Actress: Dianne Wiest

5 Film Excess nominations:

Best Lead Actor: Aaron Eckhart (lost to Stephen Dorff for Somewhere)
Best Lead Actress: Nicole Kidman (lost to Jennifer Connelly for Virginia/What's Wrong with Virginia)
Best Supporting Actress: Dianne Wiest (won)
Best Supporting Actress:Sandra Oh
Best Director: John Cameron Mitchell (lost to Sofia Coppola for Somewhere)

 

+ Best Drama of the Year

A mysterious poster for one of the year's truly great films, John Cameron Mitchell's Rabbit Hole

It has been 8 months since marrieds Becca and Howie lost their 4 year-old son.

 

Rabbit Hole is an adaptation of David Lindsay-Abaire's (High Fidelity (2006)) same-titled, Pulitzer-prize winning 2006 play, written by himself and directed by great Texan filmmaker John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)). It is a fantastic film; serious, sad, - yet managing to be hope-inspiring in the end. - A great achievement.

Aaron Eckhart (The Rum Diary (2011)) and Nicole Kidman (The Bit Part (1987)) both give outstanding performances, and Dianne Wiest (Robots (2005)) and Sandra Oh (The Night Listener (2006)) are excellent in supporting roles.

Rabbit Hole is touching and realistic. A great drama.

 

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Watch a trailer for the film here

Cost: 3.2-5 mil. $

Box office: 5.1 mil. $

= Big flop

[Rabbit Hole premiered September 13 (Toronto International Film Festival) and runs 91 minutes. Kidman dropped out of Woody Allen's You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger to pursue Rabbit Hole, which she also acted as a producer on. Filming took place over the course of 28 days from June - July 2009 in Queens, New York. The film expands on the play, adding several characters. It opened #38 in 5 theaters to a 53k $ first weekend, peaking in 131 theaters in North America, where it grossed 2.2 mil. $ (43.1 % of the total gross). The 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were Australia with 0.5 mil. $ (9.8 %) and Poland with 0.3 mil. $ (5.9 %). Kidman was Oscar-nominated for Best Actress, which she lost to Black Swan's Natalie Portman. She was nominated for the same Golden Globe, and Rabbit Hole also got nominated for 4 Independent Spirit awards, without winning any though. Roger Ebert gave the film 3½ stars, equal to its rating here. Rabbit Hole is certified fresh at 86 % with a 7.6 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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