[Editor's Note: What follows is the second part of CL Contributor Anthony Nicholas' epic, three-part Fall Movie Preview. You can check out Part 1 right here, and be sure to look for the final chapter on Thursday right here on Daily Loaf.]

29) Rabbit Hole

John Cameron Mitchell is one of my heroes. His 2001 glam-rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch is my favorite film of the past decade, and his sophomore experiment Shortbus featured real sex and was still popular enough to play at multiplexes across America. Rabbit Hole, an adaptation of David Lindsay-Abaire’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play (recently staged at Jobsite), is his first stab at the mainstream. It stars Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart as a married couple grieving over the loss of their young son. Mitchell is said to be drawing from his own experiences with loss and avoiding every Hollywood melodrama cliché in the process.

This article appears in Sep 9-15, 2010.