Brothers (M)
Roadshow Entertainment
The spectres of Afghanistan and Iraq are having a greater presence in the entertainment world as time passes.
The Hurt Locker's Academy Award-winning best movie performance will not doubt inspire even more.
Brothers is a similar film, this time based on Afghanistan experiences.
An impressive cast delivers a poignant story
of a soldier's battle to overcome the horrors of war and rediscover his family and his life. Captain Sam Cahill (Tobey Maguire) is a decorated and admired marine leader who feels truly alive when leading his squad into a battle zone. Despite his wife Grace (Natalie Portman) and young family being at home, he knows his duty at this time is to his country.
But his latest mission does not go well. The helicopter he is flying in is shot down leaving just him and a junior soldier alive. The two are captured by the Taleban and hidden away in a mountain stronghold. His military training is tested but ultimately he must go against everything he knows if he wants to live and see his family again. But the horror of his "act" is not easily forgotten.
In his absence, and believing her husband is dead, Grace slowly begins to move on with her life. Helping her do that is Sam's brother, Tommy (Jake Gyllenhaal). Tommy has been the black sheep of the family but wants to change by being there for his brother's family.
He grows close to the couple's two daughters and forms a special and growing bond with Grace. When Sam is rescued from his Afghanistan hellhole, life for the Cahills is turned upside down and all the members of the family have to work through the changes.
And, most importantly, Sam must bury the demons in his head.
