Grace Is Gone
Not every war is fought on the battlefield. And not every war is fought by a soldier. In “Grace Is Gone,” John Cusack plays a husband whose wife is killed in action in the Iraq War. He’s thus given an impossible task: How do you tell your two children that their mother is dead? The film explores the quiet, mundane brutality in a life post-war, a life post-death. Even the happiest moments are tinged with melancholy.