John Cusack's <i>Grace is Gone</i> is The First Sale of Sundance '07

On the day after the war in Iraq claimed the lives of another 20 American servicemen, it seems fitting that John Cusack's story should prove to be the first film sold at this year's Sundance Film Festival.
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Park City, Utah -- On the day after the war in Iraq claimed the lives of another 20 American servicemen, it seems fitting that John Cusack's story of the husband of a US Marine killed in Iraq should prove to be the first film sold at this year's Sundance Film Festival. Harvey Weinstein has moved early and decisively to secure New Crime Production's feature, Grace is Gone, produced by and starring Cusack.

Grace is Gone was created by Cusack and writer/director James Strouse to use dramatic form to show the American people some of the emotional realities that the Bush administration has kept off our television screens. In this case an inconsolable husband unable to tell his daughters that their mother is dead. It is a courageous story and a timely piece of film making, demonstrating, among other things that the issues of death and loss in Iraq are beyond partisan politics.

This sale at Sundance is great news for Cusack and the team at New Crime, and also great news for American audiences. Thanks, Harvey.

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