Rabbit Hole [DVD]: 2011) [2010] [UK Import]

Searingly powerful, heartbreakingly beautiful and startlingly original, Rabbit Hole is an emotional tour de force that features a career-defining performance by Nicole Kidman. Becca and Howie Corbett are a married couple struggling to return to normality after a twist of fate tears their lives apart. With their world turned upside down they embark on separate journeys, making choices that threaten to pull them apart. But as events unfold and new meaning is brought into their lives they must decide whether to allow their personal journeys to bring them back together… Vivid, honest and achingly tender, Rabbit Hole is a stunning portrait of a family searching for what can remain possible in the most impossible of situations.
RABBIT HOLE is the new film from John Cameron Mitchell (Shortbus, Hedwig and the Angry Inch) based on the Pulitzer Prize winning play by David Lindsay Abaire.
Set in the suburbs of America, RABBIT HOLE tells the story of Becca and Howie Corbett, a married couple struggling to return to their everyday existence several months after the loss of their child. Becca and Howie embark on seperate journeys, making increasingly unexpected choices that threaten to pull them apart. Distancing herself from her family and her own emotions, Becca begins to surreptitiously follow a local teenage boy with whom she shares an unexplained connection. Howie clings wholeheartedly onto his memories and places his faith in the everday routines of life, but an acquaintance at a group therapy session offers a more unconventional method of dealing with his feelings.
With their world tilted off its axis, the couple must decide whether to allow their increasingly fractured personal journeys to bring them back together. RABBIT HOLE is a vivid, honest and unexpectedly funny portrait of a family searching for what remains possible in the most impossible of situations.
83rd Academy Awards Nominee (Actress In A Leading Role): Nicole Kidman