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- 2007
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 58 m
- 2007
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 58 m
Summary Audrey Burke's life has been shattered by the sudden death of her husband. In grief, she turns to one of his lifelong friends, Jerry Sunborne, a former lawyer who is on a serious downward spiral. Together they work to repair their lives. (DreamWorks Pictures)
Directed By: Susanne Bier
Written By: Allan Loeb
- 2007
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 58 m
- 2007
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 58 m
Things We Lost in the Fire
63
7.3
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Summary Audrey Burke's life has been shattered by the sudden death of her husband. In grief, she turns to one of his lifelong friends, Jerry Sunborne, a former lawyer who is on a serious downward spiral. Together they work to repair their lives. (DreamWorks Pictures)
Directed By: Susanne Bier
Written By: Allan Loeb
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 30 Critic Reviews
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67% Positive
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27% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 30 Critic Reviews
63
67% Positive
20 Reviews
20 Reviews
27% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
7% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
In the end this movie belongs to Del Toro. He imbues Jerry with such life, such ambiguity, such unsentimental complexity and depth that you can’t help but feel you’re watching the most intricately mapped depiction of addiction and strained humanity the film world has ever given us.
The film also has an unexpected and rich vein of humor. John Carroll Lynch -- you might know him as Norm Gunderson of "Fargo" -- is a stitch as a neighbor of the Burkes.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 22 User Ratings
7.3
82% Positive
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 22 User Ratings
7.3
82% Positive
18 Ratings
18 Ratings
9% Mixed
2 Ratings
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9% Negative
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The movie is an engrossing melodrama, and it has its heart in the right place.
Bier is one of the cinema's most acute observers of intimate relations, her Scandinavian reserve muting the inherent melodrama of her material, and she draws piercing, modestly scaled performances from Duchovny, Del Toro, Alison Lohman, and John Carroll Lynch.
Apart from the mobile camera and a moderately challenging time-jumping script, this is weepy women's cable-television fare of the tears-and-cuddles variety.
This movie asks us to "accept the good" in life - not a bad message. But to overpraise Things We Lost in the Fire would be to accept the mediocre.
Del Toro will probably get an Oscar nod for his Jerry, because the film is so full of Oscar moments, including a cold-turkey detox bit. He rumbles and shivers and screeches and bangs his head on the wall and takes a shower in his clothes. I never believed a second of it.
Production Company
Dreamworks Pictures,
Neal Street Productions,
Province of British Columbia Production Services Tax Credit,
DreamWorks
Release Date Oct 19, 2007
Duration 1 h 58 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline Hope comes with letting go.
Awards
Palm Springs International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Young Artist Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
BET Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
