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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.
22 November 1965, Pembroke, Ontario, Canada
17 December 1969, Chicago, Illinois, USA
25 January 1997, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
19 February 1999
9 August 1976, Alliston, Ontario, Canada
October 20, 2007
The movie is an engrossing melodrama, and it has its heart in the right place.
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.
April 28, 2011
Every trace of maudlin evaporates in one of Del Toro's lopsided grins.
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.
March 21, 2009
You can't manufacture honest sentiment.... So, I'd have to call the movie a noble miss.
October 19, 2007
Things We Lost in the Fire veers away from the real and hard and toward the fantastic.
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.
October 22, 2007
It's very strong.
May 26, 2008
The film felt very anti-climatic to me for some reason.
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.
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.
