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Things We Lost in the Fire

Hope comes with letting go.

2007 · 1h 53m · R Drama
Directed by Susanne Bier

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Overview

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.

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All reviews
65%
Tomatometer
Rotten

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.

Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
Fresh

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.

Jack Mathews, New York Daily News
Fresh

It's very strong.

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
Fresh

The movie is an engrossing melodrama, and it has its heart in the right place.

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten

Things We Lost in the Fire veers away from the real and hard and toward the fantastic.

Stephen Hunter, Washington Post

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