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.
1996, Canada
18 September 1979, Palm Springs, California, USA
July 28, 1978 in St. Boniface, Manitoba, Canada
7 August 1960, New York City, New York, USA
17 May 1996, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
25 January 1997, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
9 August 1976, Alliston, Ontario, Canada
14 August 1966, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
17 December 1969, Chicago, Illinois, USA
18 February 1977, Düsseldorf, Germany
6 December 1998, Ontario, Canada
9 May 1958, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
22 November 1965, Pembroke, Ontario, Canada
19 February 1999
May 22, 2016
The English-language debut of Danish director Susanne Bier is at times morose but the tale of healing is directed with compassion and a powerful, sometimes discomforting intimacy.
October 27, 2007
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.
October 22, 2007
It's very strong.
February 22, 2008
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.
October 20, 2007
The movie is an engrossing melodrama, and it has its heart in the right place.
August 14, 2008
The best part of the film is del Toro's performance, a junkie jumble of many layers, glued together with a deep seated humanity that reaches out to us.
May 26, 2008
The film felt very anti-climatic to me for some reason.
March 21, 2009
You can't manufacture honest sentiment.... So, I'd have to call the movie a noble miss.
April 28, 2011
Every trace of maudlin evaporates in one of Del Toro's lopsided grins.
October 31, 2007
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.
October 19, 2007
Things We Lost in the Fire veers away from the real and hard and toward the fantastic.
