It’s amazing how old and plain a tan windbreaker can make a cute guy look. In Grace is Gone, John Cusack,41, plays a middle aged father with a dead end job and a defeated attitude. The hunched actor looks much shorter than his 6’3″ height and he’s very convincing as a mature and pathetic character. People in the audience are startled by how much older Cusack seems to have gotten since his last movie. We’re happy to report that he hasn’t aged overnight – he’s ACTING. He made a personal appearance at a SAG screening of the movie last week, looking cool, dressed in black, and proved that he’s still an appealing, if unconventional, leading man. We think he’s doing a lot of these public appearances to show that he’s not as old as he looks in the movie.
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Talented man with a vile personality.
Cusack is an talented artist and an articulate and involved American citizen.
He looks just like Kevin Spacey (in a wig) here
he’s one weird guy but talented.
i think he’s in his 40’s
i think he’s in his 40’s
Bottom Line: A disappointing and manipulative look at one family’s loss in the Iraq war. The Hollywood Reporter.
“Grace Is Gone” is not a dishonest film for you sense the fledgling filmmaker’s sincere desire to deal with grief, the natural outcome of war. But the grief in writer-director James C. Strouse’s “Grace” is so heavily manufactured that everything rings hollow. In John Cusack, Strouse has one of the screen’s more versatile leading men. Yet Cusack seems strangely remote in a surprisingly one-note performance that requires the audience to supply the emotions.
From the sounds of sniffles in the Eccles Theater here, many will do just that. Much of these feelings owes to the highly manipulative use of two very young actors who play Cusack’s adolescent daughters. The eldest, Shelan O’Keefe, is the best thing about the movie. But the younger one, Grace Bednarczyk, is Strouse’s go-to person when he needs a quick emotional jolt.
This is John Cusack. John is an Actor. Be catatonic, John. Good. Now be confused. Sad. Angry. Heartbroken.
Fine. Now can we go home?
The acting exercise
i love him, he’s smokin’, i’d have his love child!
Oh please! He’s a 40-something Euro American man OF COURSE HE LOOKS OLD CUZ HE IS!
John Cusack is an actor and his job is to be something he is not and to take us away and show us all another directiona and it seems like he is having fun and just doing something that is going to take him away and place in some one else life and that is what acting is all about acting and like some one…you simply don’t know.
Fun is Fun and the paycheck is Fat and Juicy and that he is going to dress the way they tell him and wear what they want and do what they want and remember!!!John Cusack always gets the big bucks..So what the Hell..He gets to get paid for make believe and at the same time having fun.