Loin des yeux, près du coeur

I thought this was an excellent movie. It dealt with very real-life situations in a way that was more human than the way most movies try to deal with similar situations. Susan Sarandon is my favourite actress and never fails to be outstanding. This was no exception. Highly recommended.

Margaret Singer (Susan Sarandon) is a mother of seven sons that is also divorcing her husband Patrick (Sam Shepard) and wants to move to the city for living on her own. Suddenly she hears on TV the news about a bombing at a Marine base in the Middle East where her son Percival is stationed there. All the other sons return home in waiting for positive news about Percival and also Patrick for rejoining his bond with Margaret. The movie then moves back and forth between scenes of the family together at home and flashbacks of Margaret helping her kids grow when they were little. They will all wait the good news, but will it arrive? See the movie.

The reason for seeing this obscure movie is simply for the good feelings it provides. Despite Margaret and her children are all anxious for the news about Percival, they still live a good life: they visit friends, they go out for daily routines and so on. Probably the moment I loved the most is when Izzy (Sean Astin) tried to understand the reason behind the dad's casual blindness and he even succedds in finding some sort of cure for it.

Despite this movie has very few reviews, I highly recommend it because, yes it is about a dysfunctional family, but it manages also to be a great feel good movie.

If you like movies about realistic families you should like this film. Nothing really deep. Family joins together during the stress of the potential loss of one of its members. The way they act and treat one another is so true.

It's worth the rental cost to watch Susan and the boys clean the garage.

This film is about a mother of seven sons, who had a premonition dream about something bad will happen to one of her sons. As their family learns about the tragedy, they come together and learn to love each other again.

"Safe Passage" is a drama about real people, real family and real life situations. The characters are down to earth and authentic. they could our next door neighbours or even ourselves. Hence, I find myself connecting with the characters and the story of "Safe Passage".

Susan Sarandon is superb as a stressed out mother. She acts her character's emotions well, be it love, stress, anxiety, guilt or anger. I like the flashbacks and the home videos, as they provide further insight into how the past shaped the character's personality. "Safe Passage" is an engaging drama.

This film is very entertaining and should be watched by the whole family but you may not want your kids to watch it because of the Adult Themes and the little Language. The cast was well picked and they did a great job(Susan Sarandon and Nick Stahl)and Jason London was also good even though he played a minor part as one of Susan's character's sons. It tells a story of a mother with 7 sons who at night has a premonition dream that something has happened to one of her sons and the story unfolds from there. The film was just so touching but im not sure if it was rated M or PG so if it is PG you should let the whole family watch it. In conclusion to this review I give this film a 7 out of 10 because it deserves this rating and because it's a film for the whole family.