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Jake Gyllenhaal
Natalie Portman
Tobey Maguire
Mare Winningham
Sam Shepard
Bailee Madison

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Family man and life-long soldier Sam Cahill goes MIA in Afghanistan. His brother, Tommy Cahill leaves his former drifter lifestyle behind to care for his brother's wife and two daughters. When Sam returns and finds his life has been taken from his by his own brother, no one's life will be the same. -- Chris aka Tarkin

01/05/2010 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Strong Movie

This movie was intense. Maguire dominates on camera as the psychologically wounded war hero. Portman and Gyllenhaal are a great supporting cast. They are all incredible actors. The ending also isn't very obvious, which I always appreciate. There's no twist, but you can not necessarily say, "I know what's going to happen." I would definitely recommend this to anyone. Very good movie.

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3.5/4 

12/09/2009 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Not Oscar Worhy, But Good

Brothers is a very solid movie. It is well acted by Jake Gyllenhaall and Natalie Portman (why couldn't she act this great in Star Wars - I blame George Lucas). This movie is not best picture nomination material (though I didn't think The Reader was either).

The last several war movies that I have seen have all been very similar in nature. Guy goes over seas, comes back, has a bad time and someone gets hurt. This remains true to this movie as well. Guy (Toby) goes overseas, comes back, hurts people. To be honest, this isn't much different.

The characters are actually really strong and the director does a good job of showing off the family. The pacing is fine as well. The music and cinematography are terrible and the ending is not really good either (reminds me of Stop Loss).

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3/4