RABBIT HOLE is a truly awful film. It deals with the aftermath of the death of a child. We learn about halfway through the film that the child ran out into the street after his dog, and was hit by a teenager who served to evade the dog, and hit the oncoming child. Aaron Eckhart and Nicole Kidman play the grieving parents. Eckhart is alright in the role, but Kidman frankly comes off as a bitch: taking out her anger on her family and friends and fellow grievers at group therapy, and then acts really nice to the kid who hit her child. She also sports a slight Boston accent every once in a while, which is so contrary to the mormon-esque poses that misled director John Cameron Mitchell employs. The film is so repetitive in its material, that it serves only as disaster porn. We get it, it's awful. We don't need to immerse ourselves in 90 minutes of pure mawkish depression. I love many depressing films like LEAVING LAS VEGAS to name the best example, but RABBIT HOLE is obnoxious in its approach. It tries to hint that it can be funny at inappropriate times, it sums up everything in a clichéd manner, and those who are supposed to be wise and profound come off as ditzy. The film deals with such a terrible event, its a shame it couldn't have given better credit to that subject. Instead it tries to make that event stylized. After all of these annoying aspects of the film are viewed as a whole, RABBIT HOLE exhibits itself to suck.
Rabbit Hole: ★
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