It was just a matter of time before the Nicole Kidman/Aaron Eckhart drama Rabbit Hole found a buyer up in Toronto, and now that Lionsgate has staked its claim , the Oscar race is reportedly next. It’s strikingly new territory for John Cameron Mitchell, the writer-director best known for the cult-classic fringe musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch and the sexually explicit ensemble dramedy Shortbus . Here, directing David Lindsay-Abaire’s adaptation of his own celebrated play, Mitchell settles admirably into a suburban idyll riven by grief, guilt, frigidity and dark humor eight months after the accidental death of Becca (Kidman) and Howie’s (Eckhart) young son. And then there was the year of editing.
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John Cameron Mitchell on Rabbit Hole, Nicole Kidman’s Face and How to Share Power on the Set
