Extremely Loud and
Incredibly Close is one hundred percent Oscar bait and shamelessly so. It
co-stars two Oscar-winning actors as the parents of a precocious child who sets
out on a journey of discovery after the death of his father. There’s an
international screen legend (once Oscar nominated) cast an elderly man who
doesn’t speak. It’s penned by Eric Roth, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Forrest Gump, and directed by Stephen
Daldry, the only person ever nominated for the Best Director Oscar for each of his
first three feature films. To top it all off it’s a post 9/11 drama that
centers on the breakdown of a family after a tragic loss on that day.
