Brothers [Blu-ray] | ![Brothers [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ZGlg9h5OL._SL500_.jpg) | Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Tobey Maguire
Studio: Lionsgate
Category: DVD
List Price: $39.99
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 1859
Language: English (Unknown)
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 1
Number Of Discs: 1
UPC: 031398119289
EAN: 0031398119289
ASIN: B001FB55LC
Theatrical Release Date: December 5, 2008
Release Date: March 23, 2010 (In 41 Days)
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Screenwriter David Benioff (The 25th Hour) didn't have to do much to relocate Brothers from Denmark to America. The story remains the same: Captain Sam Cahill (Tobey Maguire) loves his family, but he's equally devoted to his career. Just as his ne'er-do-well brother, Tommy (Jake Gyllenhaal), exits prison, where he did time for robbery, the Marines deploy Sam to Afghanistan. Tommy starts looking in on his wary sister-in-law, Grace (Natalie Portman), but then Sam's helicopter crashes in the mountains, and the military informs Grace that her husband has died. Unbeknownst to the Cahill clan, the Taliban has taken Sam hostage and tortures him to elicit information. Sam resists, but his colleague caves, leading to an unthinkable act. Back in New Mexico, Grace and Tommy grow closer, stopping just short of a full-blown affair (in Susanne Bier's original, they take the plunge). Even Tommy's disapproving Vietnam vet father, Hank (Sam Shepard), sees his son in a new light after Tommy renovates Grace's kitchen. But when Sam is rescued by his company, he returns a broken man and is convinced that his wife has fallen in love with his brother. Even his daughters are afraid of him (Bailee Madison impresses as the eldest). As in Bier's film, Jim Sheridan (In America) elevates redemption and forgiveness over tragedy and loss, and his well-meaning remake gets off to a solid start, but it loses steam by the end. Brothers offers a compelling scenario, but the telling is too overstated to capture the full heartbreak of the situation. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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 Speaking from experience February 8, 2010
Enid Hernandez (USA)
I am currently deployed in Iraq, first duty and hopefully my last. My significant other came back home from Iraq and totally cam back as a different person. This movie is as real as it gets. Highly recommanded. A truly magificant movie. Oscar winners in my book especially Toby. Left me speechless, he was right on the money.
 Amazon reviewer Kathleen C. Fennessy is a phony! February 6, 2010
Frank Sellers (Philadelphia, PA USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
In her review of "Brothers" Kathleen C. Fennessy writes, "Back in New Mexico, Grace and Tommy grow closer, stopping just short of a full-blown affair (in [Danish director] Susanne Bier's original [Danish movie "Brødre" starring Connie Nielsen], they take the plunge)."
No they don't! Just as in the American re-make, brother- and sister-in-law come close but they never actually have sex! They both love their fallen brother and husband and would have betrayed the soldier's love, making them both unworthy of his sacrafice in Afghanistan! (I'm sure that if the American version came first they would've slept together.)
Ms. Fennessy should actually WATCH the movies she writes about on Amazon.com!
 Masterful February 5, 2010
D.G. (USA)
This ensemble cast delivered the goods and nailed each of their performances.
Tobey and Jake are very believable as brothers and Natalie was the true heart of this story as her beloved husband played by Tobey goes to a very dark place as a result of his experience in the war. All of the cast members were strong and made you really care about what happened to them.
I felt their happiness,pain and sadness.
Jim Sheridan the director is true to his style and storytelling theme about war and its effects on a marriage,family and forgiveness.
There was one scene with he and Natalie that reduced me to tears and that is not an easy thing to do, thus the five star rating which is well earned and deserved!
Good But Not Gripping Like I Expected; Actors Give It Their All February 4, 2010
carol irvin (United States)
This is one of those times that I wish Amazon let us use half stars as I think this is more 3.5 stars than 4 full ones. I have not seen the Danish film and now I wish I had. This is because I just read here that in the Danish movie, the wife does start an affair with her brother-in-law. This film lost a lot of its punch when the director shied away from letting that happen in the American remake. As a result, it's as if someone punctured the air out of the movie past the halfway point. This should be a very taut, sharp drama throughout , which I suspect he Danish one is. The American one simply cannot sustain the same tension when the guts were removed from the script. The actors are very good, both the brothers and the wife. I think they make the best of what they've got. So the problem must be that director Jim Sheridan was worried about losing audience if he kept the film as stark as the Danish version (that a film is Scandinavian and stark borders on redundancy). This almost always happens in American remakes. We seem to do better when we use our own original source material.
Great Movie January 29, 2010
Steven J. Bond
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I loved this movie. It instantly became one of my top 5 ever. Some of the films most intense moments are some of the most intense I've ever seen. Tobey Maguire deserves an oscar for this. Some critics have been saying that this movie is more of a melodrama than the original, but I would greatly disagreee. Great acting from all involved (including the dad) and terrific writing. After I saw it, I couldn't stop thinking about it the rest of the week. Highly recommended.
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