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Spotlight On: Things We Lost In The Fire
Reported by Jay Cochran - 10:01 PM 2007.09.24
Academy Award® winners Halle Berry and Benicio Del Toro star in director Susanne Bier’s (the Oscar®-nominated “After the Wedding”) powerful new drama “Things We Lost in the Fire,” a moving and emotionally compelling drama about two people brought together by fate.
Audrey Burke (Berry) is reeling from the shock of the news that has just been delivered to her door by the local police: her warm and loving husband Brian (David Duchovny), the father of their two young children, has been killed in a random act of violence. Once anchored by the love and comforts of their 11-year marriage, Audrey is now adrift. Impulsively, she turns to Jerry Sunborne (Del Toro), a down-and-out addict who has been her husband’s close friend since childhood. Desperate to fill the painful void caused by her husband’s death, Audrey invites Jerry to move into the room adjacent to their garage in the hope that he can help her and her children cope with their sudden loss. Jerry is facing a daily battle to stay off drugs, but in his unexpected role as surrogate parent and friend to Audrey’s son and daughter he finds a core of inner resilience. As Jerry and Audrey navigate grief and denial, their fragile bonds are constantly tested. Working together, however, they discover the strength to move forward. DreamWorks Pictures Presents A Neal Street Production “Things We Lost in the Fire” starring Halle Berry, Benicio Del Toro, David Duchovny, Alison Lohman, Omar Benson Miller and John Carroll Lynch. The film is directed by Susanne Bier and written by Allan Loeb. The producers are Sam Mendes and Sam Mercer. The executive producers are Pippa Harris and Allan Loeb. The director of photography is Tom Stern. The production designer is Richard Sherman. The film is edited by Pernille Bech Christensen and Bruce Cannon, A.C.E. The costumes are designed by Karen Matthews. Themes are by Gustavo Santaolalla. The score is by Johan Söderqvist. The music supervisor is Susan Jacobs. The film has been rated R for drug content and language. HALLE BERRY (Audrey Burke) is an Academy Award®-winning actress who continues to break down barriers. She was most recently seen in the thriller “Perfect Stranger” opposite Bruce Willis. Last year, Berry reprised her role as Storm in “X-Men: The Last Stand,” the third installment of the “X-Men” franchise, directed by Brett Ratner. Previously, Berry headlined the globally successful psychological thriller “Gothika.” In summer 2003, she starred in “X2,” which grossed more than $200 million. In 2002, Berry starred as Jinx in the James Bond adventure “Die Another Day” opposite Pierce Brosnan. The 20th installment in a franchise celebrating its 40th anniversary, the movie was the largest-grossing Bond film to that point. For her spectacular performance in Lions Gate Films’ “Monster’s Ball,” she won an Oscar®, a SAG Award and the Berlin Silver Bear Award and was named Best Actress by the National Board of Review. No stranger to accolades, Berry received Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for her acting work in the Oprah Winfrey-produced movie “Their Eyes Were Watching God” and as executive producer for the HBO telefilm “Lackawanna Blues.” She won an Emmy, a Golden Globe, a SAG Award and an NAACP Image Award for her extraordinary and critically acclaimed performance in HBO’s telefilm “Introducing Dorothy Dandridge,” which she also produced. Critics and filmgoers took notice of Berry in her feature film debut, Spike Lee’s “Jungle Fever.” She went on to star opposite Warren Beatty in the political comedy “Bulworth.” Other film credits include “Losing Isaiah” opposite Jessica Lange, Reginald Hudlin’s “Boomerang” opposite Eddie Murphy and “Swordfish” with John Travolta and Hugh Jackman. Other television credits include the highly rated ABC miniseries Oprah Winfrey Presents: “The Wedding,” directed by Charles Burnett, and the title role in Alex Haley’s miniseries “Queen” – the highest-rated sequel in television history. Her performance earned Berry her first NAACP Image Award for Best Actress, as well as the Best Newcomer Award from the Hollywood Women’s Press Club. In recognition of her achievements as an actress, the Harvard Foundation at Harvard University has honored Berry as Cultural Artist of the Year. Currently, she serves as an international spokesperson for Revlon. BENICIO DEL TORO (Jerry Sunborne) has earned critical accolades throughout his career, winning an Academy Award® for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Steven Soderbergh’s “Traffic,” as well as an Oscar® nomination for his work in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s “21 Grams.” Del Toro will re-team with Soderbergh to star in the biography of Che Guevera. He will next start production on “The Wolf Man,” starring opposite Anthony Hopkins. Del Toro was most recently seen in the film adaptation of Frank Miller’s graphic novel “Sin City” directed by Robert Rodriquez. His previous works include Peter Weir's “Fearless," George Huang's “Swimming with Sharks,” Abel Ferrara's “The Funeral," Guy Ritchie's “Snatch,” Sean Penn's “The Indian Runner” and “The Pledge,” Christopher McQuarrie's “The Way of the Gun," William Friedkin's “The Hunted” and as Dr. Gonzo in Terry Gilliam's “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.” Del Toro made his motion picture debut in John Glen's “License to Kill” opposite Timothy Dalton's James Bond and has earned critical acclaim for his performances ever since. In addition to winning an Academy Award® for Best Supporting Actor in Steven Soderbergh's “Traffic,” his performance also garnered a Golden Globe, a Screen Actors Guild Award and a BAFTA Award, the Silver Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival, as well as citations from the New York Film Critics Circle, the National Society of Film Critics and the Chicago Film Critics Association. His work in “21 Grams” also earned Del Toro the Audience Award for Best Actor at the 2003 Venice International Film Festival. He earned Independent Spirit Awards for his performances as Fred Fenster in Bryan Singer's “The Usual Suspects” and as Benny Dalmau in Julian Schnabel's “Basquiat.” Born in Puerto Rico, Del Toro grew up in Pennsylvania. He attended the University of California at San Diego, where he appeared in numerous student productions, one of which led to his performing at a drama festival at the Lafayette Theater in New York. Del Toro studied at the Stella Adler Conservatory under the tutelage of Arthur Mendoza. Born and raised in New York City, DAVID DUCHOVNY (Brian Burke) attended Princeton University (where he played one season as shooting guard on the school’s basketball team), received his Masters Degree in English Literature from Yale, and was on the road to earning his Ph.D. when he caught the acting bug. Subsequently, Duchovny emerged to become one of the most highly acclaimed actors in Hollywood. The star of Fox Television’s monster hit “The X-Files,” Duchovny was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series, and was nominated for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for his highly acclaimed (some say risqué) appearances on “The Larry Sanders Show.” In January 1997, Duchovny won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series. He has been nominated for a total of three Golden Globes, three Screen Actors Guild Awards and a TV Critic’s Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series. The press and the public agree that Duchovny brings a fierce intellect, a quiet intensity and an acerbic wit to his roles on both the small screen and the silver screen. Since “The X-Files” debuted, millions and millions of self-proclaimed “X-Philes” spent their Sunday nights wide-eyed in anticipation as their hero, the brilliant and sullen FBI agent Fox Mulder (Duchovny), explored cases deemed unbelievable or unsolvable by the Bureau. Duchovny’s remarkable performance earned him the title of “Zeitgeist Icon” by Laura Jacobs in The New Republic and “the first Internet sex symbol with hair” by Maureen Dowd in The New York Times. Duchovny added the role of director to his already extensive list of accomplishments when he wrote, directed and starred in two critically acclaimed episodes of “The X-Files” entitled “The Unnatural,” which starred Jessie Martin, and “Hollywood A.D.” starring Garry Shandling and actress Téa Leoni. Duchovny’s passion for renegade films has brought him critical acclaim for his performances in the feature films “Kalifornia,” in which he costarred with Brad Pitt and Juliette Lewis; “The Rapture,” the controversial film directed by Michael Tolkin in which Duchovny starred opposite Mimi Rogers; and “Julia Has Two Lovers,” in which he turned in a much-heralded performance as a telephone hustler. Duchovny played Roland “Rollie” Totheroh, Charlie Chaplin’s longtime confidante and cameraman, in the Sir Richard Attenborough-directed “Chaplin,” which starred Robert Downey Jr. in the title role, and starred in the smash hit “Beethoven” opposite Charles Grodin, as the evil yuppie determined to take over Grodin’s company. His recent feature credits include the action-comedy “Evolution” opposite Julianne Moore and directed by Ivan Reitman, the romantic-comedy “Return to Me” opposite Minnie Driver and directed by Bonnie Hunt, “The X-Files” movie directed by Rob Bowman, and the Touchstone film “Playing God” with Timothy Hutton and Angelina Jolie, an action thriller directed by Andy Wilson. Duchovny appeared in Ben Stiller’s “Zoolander” in a hilarious, unbilled cameo performance. Still recognized for his role as Dennis/Denise Bryson, the transvestite detective in David Lynch’s breakthrough television series “Twin Peaks,” Duchovny also spent four seasons as the impassioned narrator of Zalman King’s erotic anthology series “Red Shoe Diaries,” which began as a feature length telefilm for Showtime. In 2002, he starred in the Miramax ensemble comedy “Full Frontal,” for director Steven Soderbergh and co-starring Julia Roberts, George Clooney and David Hyde Pierce. Duchovny has made brief returns to television, first appearing in good friend Bonnie Hunt’s show “Life With Bonnie,” in which he guest starred as over-the-top weatherman Johnny Volcano and for which he was nominated for a 2003 Emmy. Following that, he made a memorable appearance on “Sex and the City” as an ex-flame of Sarah Jessica Parker’s Carrie Bradshaw. He made his feature directorial debut in 2005 with “House of D,” which he also wrote and appeared in. The film, which starred Robin Williams and Aton Yelchin, vividly captured the spirit of youth in all its joy and heartbreak. More recently, Duchovny has been seen in “Trust the Man,” a romantic comedy in which he starred with Julianne Moore, and “The TV Set” directed by Jake Kasdan. Never one to slow down, he was still active behind the camera directing an episode of the Fox television series “Bones,” starring David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel. He will next be seen in the feature film “The Secret” directed by Vincent Perez and produced by Luc Besson. Currently he is starring in the new hit Showtime series “Californication,” in which he also serves as one of the shows executive producers. He will begin production on the highly anticipated “X-Files” sequel this fall. Duchovny is married to actress Téa Leoni. They have a daughter and son. ALISON LOHMAN (Kelly) first came to the public’s attention with her acclaimed performance in “White Oleander,” in which she starred opposite Michelle Pfeiffer, Renée Zellweger and Robin Wright Penn. Lohman has been acting in professional theater since she was nine years old, starting with the role of Gretl Von Trapp in a local theater production of “The Sound of Music.” As a senior in high school, she was a National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts Award winner and was also offered a scholarship to NYU for Theater, but instead chose to move to Los Angeles to pursue a film and television career. Prior to “White Oleander,” Lohman starred opposite Mare Winingham in the tele-film “Sharing the Secret.” Her other feature credits include Atom Egoyan’s “Where the Truth Lies” opposite Kevin Bacon and Colin Firth, Ridley Scott’s “Matchstick Men” opposite Nicholas Cage and Sam Rockwell and co-starring roles opposite Ewan McGregor in Tim Burton’s “Big Fish” and Giovanni Ribisi in “The Big White.” Lohman was recently seen in Michael Mayer’s “Flicka” and Tom DiCillo’s “Delirious.” She will lend her voice to Robert Zemeckis’ animated epic “Beowulf.” OMAR BENSON MILLER (Neal) recently appeared in Jim Sheridan's film “Get Rich or Die Tryin'” alongside 50 Cent and Terrence Howard, and in Curtis Hanson's “Lucky You” with Drew Barrymore and Eric Bana, as well as in a lead role in the independent feature “Man of God.” Miller started his Hollywood acting career in Disney's cross-dressing comedy “Sorority Boys.'” The film was shot while he was still enrolled in drama school at San Jose State University, where he was subsequently named best male actor of his graduating class. Immediately following graduation, Miller landed a highly coveted lead role opposite Eminem in Curtis Hanson's hit feature “8 Mile.” The ensemble cast also featured Mekhi Phifer, Kim Basinger and Brittany Murphy. Miller next appeared in HBO's “Undefeated” directed by and starring John Leguizamo. He then showed a lighter side of his talent in the romantic comedy-drama “Shall We Dance?” starring Richard Gere and Jennifer Lopez. Miller's television credits include appearances on “The West Wing,'” “Law and Order,” and most recently, the UPN series “Sex, Love and Secrets” opposite Eric Balfour and Denise Richards. Miller just finished shooting Universal’s “The Express” alongside Dennis Quaid, Charles Dutton and Rob Brown, and will begin shooting Spike Lee’s “Miracle at St. Anna” this fall in Italy. Miller makes his directorial debut with "Gordon Glass," an upcoming independent feature in which he co-stars with Evan Jones. JOHN CARROLL LYNCH (Howard Glassman) was most recently seen in David Fincher's thriller “Zodiac.” He has over 30 feature film credits, including "Fargo," "The Good Girl," "Bubble Boy," "Waking the Dead," "A Thousand Acres," "Anywhere But Here," "Pushing Tin," "Face/Off," "Volcano," “Confidence,” "Gothika" and "Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World.” On the small screen, Lynch will be seen this fall in the new Fox series "K-Ville". Lynch was a regular in the HBO series "Carnivale" as well as in David Kelley’s "Brotherhood of Poland, NH" and "Close to Home." Fox six seasons, he played Drew's brother Steve on "The Drew Carey Show." He has also appeared in "Big Love" and in television movies and miniseries including "Tuesdays with Morrie," "Live from Baghdad" and "From the Earth to the Moon." Lynch began his professional career in the theater and spent eight years as a member of the Guthrie Theater Company in Minneapolis. His recent stage appearances include the original production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Dinner with Friends" and "Under the Blue Sky." Release: October 26, 2007 This film has been rated R for drug content and language. CREDITS NOT FINAL AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE
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