Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock
Only during awards season would audiences be expected to go to the multiplex, buy expensive tickets, and watch September 11, 2001, get re-created, even if artfully and obliquely with fluttering papers and pigeons. The occasion is a high-toned adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s 2005 novel—a harrowing read that is also somewhat sentimental. Our guess is that the movie will skew toward the latter: Hanks plays a doting dad lost in the terrorist attacks, while Oscar-approved Bullock does post-podium duty as the weeping widow who assists their nine-year-old son on a quest of rebirth.
