THINGS WE LOST IN THE FIRE
Steve Burke is a prosperous real estate developer, the loving father of two and happily married to Audrey (Halle Berry, Monster’s Ball). When Steve encounters a man hitting a woman, he intervenes and is killed.
The devastated Audrey sends her brother, Neal (Omar Benson Miller, Shall We Dance?), to find Jerry Sunborne (Benicio del Toro), Steve’s friend since childhood. Jerry, a former lawyer, is now a heroin addict living in squalor. Audrey knows that Steve, who never gave up on Jerry, would want Jerry at his funeral.
Audrey invites Jerry to live in their newly renovated garage that had burned. He gets along well with the children and neighbors, and begins to attend Narcotics Anonymous meetings.
This is a touching, intimate film. The closeups reveal the inner strength that people can frequently show in coping with tragedy and personal failure. They may have lost things in a long ago fire, but Steve’s family and friends have one another. Problem language and drug use.
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