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Some of it is too broad, and I wish the film dug a little deeper at times, but this is one of those rare inspirational films that earns its inspiration. We meet Jeff Jake Gyllenhaal , getting out of a sticky situation at his job at Costco so he can be in his lucky chair to watch the Red Sox game. In what feels like an effort to try and win her back a bit, Jeff makes a sign to greet her at the finish line. He becomes an even bigger story when he reports that he saw one of the bombers. Jeff becomes an image for a nation in need of a hero. But Jeff, with Erin by his side, has to learn how to survive as more than just a symbol. Other scenes of tactile process—like making casts for his legs or how hard it is to get in the tub—add gravity and realism to what could have been a more manipulative experience. So many performances in inspirational dramas are all about the external mountain the hero or heroine has to climb, but Gyllenhaal and Maslany recognize that it is the internal drama that will make these characters resonate. Jeff Bauman wondered aloud why he was considered strong just for being in a place that was bombed.

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The true story of Jeff Bauman, who lost both of his legs in the bombing, is told with detail and care in a film that works hard at avoiding cliche. The events of the latter film also act as a backdrop for this striking new drama from director David Gordon Green. In Stronger, the Boston marathon bombing itself is not the primary focus but more of a starting point for the journey of a man caught in the middle of the tragedy and struggling with the road to recovery. But tragedy strikes and a terrorist attack leaves Jeff in the hospital, both of his legs amputated. An uncertain road lies ahead for Jeff and Erin with instant celebrity, pain and rehabilitation threatening to either tear them apart or pull them closer together. During the majority of Stronger, I was struck with the feeling that a far more generic, far less humane version of this story could have so easily been made instead. But Green proves to be a fine choice as director, an unusual career flitting between lo-fi indie fare like George Washington and Undertow and stoner James Franco comedies like Pineapple Express and Your Highness somehow making him the perfect fit for the material. Everything else is a blur and the focus remains on them. Similarly as Jeff leaves for the first time, the camera remains on his face, capturing his every emotion as he copes with life on a wheelchair and the waiting paparazzi. Another actor could have struggled with such naked camera work, the mechanics of their work seeming, well, mechanical, but Gyllenhaal is effortlessly good here.

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It follows Bauman, who loses his legs in the Boston Marathon bombings and must adjust to his new life. Stronger had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, , and was theatrically released in the United States on September 22,

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