“Brothers” Is Like “Pearl Harbor” With Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Posted by: Catherine Strawn
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entertainment, video
11:30AM, Friday July 24th 2009
“Brothers” is the upcoming Natalie Portman-Jake-Gyllenhaal-Tobey Maguire movie about the Iraq war. Sam (Tobey) goes off to fight, leaving Grace (Natalie) and two kids at home, and he dies. Grace and the kids are heartbroken, and Tommy (Jake) steps in to help out (and, apparently, sleep with his dead brother’s wife). But wait! Sam isn’t dead! He comes back home, and things start going back to normal, but then he loses it when he finds out about Grace and Tommy! And his daughter tells him at the dinner table that Mommy would rather sleep with Uncle Tommy than him! And Sam goes apeshit! Looks like a much more intense, much less sappy version of “Pearl Harbor,” with its Ben Affleck-Josh Hartnett-Kate Beckinsdale love triangle, no?
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Alison Wonderland
wrote on July 24 2009 @ 10:46 am: [report]
Well it’s about darn time Jake and Tobey got cast as brothers!
ahw
wrote on July 24 2009 @ 10:54 am: [report]
This movie looks amazing…release date is December 4, 2009, according to IMDB. Check out the website for it and the production team…I pretty much died of excitement just now.
Squidtermz
wrote on July 24 2009 @ 11:06 am: [report]
Looks like it could be good. At least interesting and a different view of same ole’ stories. The coming back after being though dead is a little much tho’ very comic booky. After all he is spider-man. They should get rid of the U2 sounding guitar stuff at the end.
ahw
wrote on July 24 2009 @ 11:26 am: [report]
@Squidtermz and Spiderman’s production designer is working for this movie, too, Tony Fanning…should be interesting.