Things We Lost in the Fire
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.
18 September 1979, Palm Springs, California, USA
7 October 1978, Los Angeles, California, USA
19 February 1999
7 August 1960, New York City, New York, USA
6 December 1998, Ontario, Canada
July 28, 1978 in St. Boniface, Manitoba, Canada
19 February 1967, San Germán, Puerto Rico
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.
March 21, 2009
You can't manufacture honest sentiment.... So, I'd have to call the movie a noble miss.
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.
May 26, 2008
The film felt very anti-climatic to me for some reason.
October 20, 2007
The movie is an engrossing melodrama, and it has its heart in the right place.
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.
October 22, 2007
It's very strong.
April 28, 2011
Every trace of maudlin evaporates in one of Del Toro's lopsided grins.
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.
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.
