Ben Foster leverer sin karrieres bedste præstation i rollen som soldaten Will Montgomery, der vender tilbage til USA efter have været udsendt til Irak. Mens han behandler sine gruopvækkende oplevelser under krigen, får Will en ny opgave. Sammen med makkeren Tony (Woody Harrelson) skal han tage ud til pårørende til faldne soldater og overdrage dem den sørgelige nyhed. Tony instruerer Will i, at han skal holde sig på følelsesmæssig afstand af de sørgende. Men det er lettere sagt end gjort, og Wills macho-facade krakelerer langsomt, da han bliver involveret i en soldaterenkes liv.
A tragedy strikes a young woman's life without warning or reason. She continues living while searching for meaning in a lonely world.
Twelve years after their beloved eldest son, Junpei, drowned while saving a stranger's life, Kyohei and Toshiko welcome their surviving children home for a family reunion. Younger son Ryota still feels that his parents resent that he isn't the one who died; his new wife, Yukari, is awkwardly meeting the rest of the family for the first time. Daughter Chinami strains to fill the uncomfortable pauses with forced cheer.
A young man of Chinese-Cambodian descent dies, leaving behind his isolated mother and his lover of four years. Though the two don't share a language, they grow close through their grief.
Uvidende om tragedien skal Rebecca senere i dag blive enke. Hendes mand vender aldrig mere hjem efter en voldsom påkørsel under en joggingtur. Lammet af chok får Rebecca omsorg af sin lillesøster, sin bedste veninde og sin ex-stedmor. Disse fire kvinder - enken, jomfruen, hustruen og den fraskilte får hver især gjort op med deres dæmoner og bliver hen ad vejen forløst fra deres sorger, da en helt uventet person får dem til at genfinde troen på kærligheden.
Nina is totally heartbroken at the death of her boyfriend Jamie, but is even more unprepared for his return as a ghost. At first it's almost as good as it used to be – hey, even the rats that infested her house have disappeared. But Jamie starts bringing ghostly friends home and behaving more and more oddly.
After losing her mother in a car accident that leaves her with a broken arm, 4-year-old Ponette struggles with anguish and fear. Left by her father with a caring aunt and her children, Ponette grieves, secretly hoping her mother will somehow come back. Confused by the religious explanations provided by adults, and challenged by the cruel taunts of a few children at school, little Ponette must make her way through her emotional turmoil.
Jess Aarons and new girl Leslie Burke create a world of their own and call it Terabithia and pretend to be the king and queen. They return to their magical kingdom every day after school.
When her daughter Sara unexpectedly passes away, Natalie retreats to the summer home where she and Sara used to visit. Time with her best friends and some of Sara's friends help her deal with her loss.
Kærlighedshistorien fortsætter. Ryan O'Neal er tilbage som Oliver Barrett IV i Oliver's Story, der er baseret på Erich Segals efterfølger til Love Story. Candice Bergen viser elegant og charmerende skuespil i rollen som en nyligt fraskilt karrierekvinde ved navn Marcie Bonwit. De danner det perfekte par - begge er rige og smukke, begge er selvstændige og alligevel sårbare på grund af forliste forhold, og begge er tilbageholdende med at binde sig igen. Via forholdet til Marcie begynder Oliver dog at tro på livet igen - og på kærligheden.
Danny, dying of AIDS, returns home for his last months. Always close to his mother, they share moments of openness that tend to shut out Danny's father and his sister.
After the passing of his wife, a lonely newspaper editor discovers Berenalin: a medication that promises to put an end to his grief. Its effects begin to drive a wedge between him and his daughter, who needs him more than ever.
Evelyn, an ex-burlesque queen, bewitches single dad Al and his teenage son Fin with her zest for life. When father and son discover they are competing for the affections of the same woman, it reopens old wounds over the death of Fin's mother.
Returning from eight years abroad at work and in prison, Jeong-il struggles to reconnect with his wife and their young daughter, Ye-sol, whom he barely knows.
The sequel to "Yossi and Jagger" finds character Yossi (Ohad Knoller) leading a sad existence after losing his partner Jagger on the battlefield. A chance encounter with a middle-aged woman linked to his past shakes up his otherwise staid routine and sends him on a spontaneous pilgrimage to Tel Aviv. It is on the roads of southern Israel that he reignites the fire of his former self.
A recently bereaved teenage girl goes to live with her aunt in a secluded woodland house, unaware that sinister forces lurk within.
Kansas, 1910. Widowed farmer Jacob Witting finds that taking care of both his farm and two children, Anna and Caleb, is too difficult to handle alone. John takes out an ad in a newspaper for a mail-order bride, to which the "plain and tall" Sarah Wheaton answers, soon traveling from Maine to Kansas to become John's wife. Despite the love that grows between Sarah and the family, Sarah finds herself homesick, and she must ultimately choose whether or not to stay.
Daphne and her four children try to cope with the abrupt death of husband/father. As the family seems to fall apart, a sudden incident gives them a chance to heal their 'broken wings'.
In 1962, Patricia Neal and Roald Dahl retreat to the English countryside to bring up their young family. The seemingly unlikely pair find their relationship put to the test by a tragic loss.
A physics teacher's obsessive dislike for Christmas is put to the test when a reservation mishap sends him and his family on a trip to Lapland, a tourist destination dedicated to Christmas and surprisingly near the North Pole.