BROTHERS tells the moving story of two brothers, thirty-something Captain Sam Cahill (Tobey Maguire), and the younger brother of Tommy Cahill (Jake Gyllenhaal), who are polar opposites. A Marine to embark on his fourth tour of duty, Sam is a loyal family man married to his high school sweetheart, the appropriate name Grace (Natalie Portman), whom he has two daughters. Tommy, his charismatic younger brother is a drifter just out of prison, has always been the humor and charm. When his Black Hawk helicopter is downed in the mountains, Sam presumed dead, and the Cahill family, suddenly with a terrible void. Tommy tries to replace his brother to assume new responsibilities for themselves, Grace, and children. In the sadness and strangeness of her new life, Grace and Tommy are naturally drawn together. His long-standing coolness dissolved, but both are afraid and ashamed of mutual attraction, which has replaced.

But Sam is not dead, he and a colleague has been captured by Taliban fighters. In Afghanistan is rugged, remote Pamir, Sam is exposed to trauma, which threatens to deprive him of his very humanity. At the same time, the sense of Sam himself be destroyed abroad, Tommy is self image reinforced at home.

When Sam unexpectedly returned to the States, a nervous mood takes over the family. Sam, strangely withdrawn and volatile, growing suspicious of his brother and his wife. His family almost reverse roles, Sam and Tommy end up facing the physical and mental challenge, ultimately when facing each other. Changes in family dynamics will dominate? Directed by six-time Oscar ® nominee Jim Sheridan (in the U.S., The Name of the Father), the brothers tells the compelling story of how two brothers come to terms with issues of love, loyalty and manhood and woman caught between they.

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