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Directed by | James C. Strouse |
Written by | James C. Strouse |
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Cinematography | Jean-Louis Bompoint |
Edited by | Joe Klotz |
Music by | Clint Eastwood |
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Distributed by | The Weinstein Company |
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Running time | 85 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $3 million[1] |
Box office | $1.1 million[2] |
Grace Is Gone is a 2007 American drama film written and directed by James C. Strouse in his directorial debut. It stars John Cusack as a father who cannot bring himself to tell his two daughters that their mother, a soldier in the U.S. Army, has just been killed on a tour of duty in Iraq. On January 29, 2007, it won the Audience Award for Drama at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.
The film was produced by Plum Pictures and New Crime Productions and purchased by Harvey Weinstein for distribution by The Weinstein Company. Weinstein announced plans to mount an Academy Award campaign on behalf of Cusack.[3] It is the only film scored by Clint Eastwood that he did not direct.