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Director: Jim Strouse
Cast: John Cusack, Alessandro Nivola, Gracie Bednarczyk, Shélan O'Keefe
Upon hearing his wife was killed in the Iraq war, a father takes his two daughters on a road trip, all the while searching for the right time and place to tell them about their mother's fate.
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Fans of thoughtful, character-driven dramas will appreciate director Jim Strouse's 2007 film Grace Is Gone, which features a powerful, nuanced performance from John Cusack as a father navigating the grief and hardship of his wife's death in the Iraq war.
Grace Is Gone is a 2007 American drama film written and directed by James C. Strouse in his directorial debut. It stars John Cusack as a father who cannot bring himself to tell his two daughters that their mother, a soldier in the U.S. Army, has just been killed on a tour of duty in Iraq. On January 29, 2007, it won the Audience Award for Drama at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.
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