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Stan Philippss wife Grace is a sergeant with the U.S. Army. While shes posted to Iraq, the earnest Stan is home in Minnesota with their daughters, Heidi, 12, and Dawn, 8. He manages a home supply store. After morning visitors bring Stan news, he takes the girls for a car ride that turns into a spontaneous trip to Dawns favorite place, a Florida amusement park. On the way, they stop at Stans mothers house, where his brother is staying. Heidi is an insomniac, who tries to fathom her fathers uncharacteristic behavior. Dawn is cheerfully unreflective. They have fun at the park. Stan summons his courage.
The contemplative, understated tearjerker Grace Is Gone dramatizes the quiet crisis that befalls Stanley (John Cusack), a young Midwestern husband of a female marine stationed in Iraq, and a father of two girls. Suddenly and unexpectedly widowed when his wife, Grace, is killed on the battlefield, Stanley cannot bring himself to share the devastating news with his two young daughters. In lieu of speaking to them immediately about their mothers death, Stanley internalizes his devastation and takes the girls on a road trip while he attempts to sort through a myriad of conflicted and tumultuous internal feelings about the war itself and contemplates how to break the shattering news. Inevitably, the road trip will end with Graces funeral.
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