Grace Is Gone (2008)Movies

Kyle Smith review of “Grace Is Gone” 85 minutes/PG-13 (adult situations, profanity) This is John Cusack. John is an Actor. Be catatonic, John. Good. Now be confused. Sad. Angry. Heartbroken. Fine. Now can we go home? The acting exercise “Grace Is Gone” offers not a lot more than watching John work his Cusackian ways. It’s about a guy with two daughters who finds out in the opening minutes that his wife has died fighting in Iraq. The big Moment the movie builds to is the scene where he tells his daughters this. But since it won’t come until the end, you’re just going to have to sit patiently through an hour and a half of Cusack driving his daughters from Minnesota to a Walley World-like theme park. It’s National Lampoon’s Wartime...