Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman and Tobey Maguire get all serious

by Liam Goodwin on July 5, 2009 · 4 comments

brothers trailerJake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman, and Tobey Maguire are all in a movie together called Brothers, and it’s the opposite of a romantic comedy. Tobey Maguire plays a guy called Tommy Cahill who dies in Afghanistan. He leaves behind his wife, Natalie Portman, and two children, however his brother Jake Gyllenhaal is there to take care on them. Half way though the trailer you get the feeling that it will be one of those feel good films where they both help each other get over the loss and discover life can go on. However, it turns out Tobey Maguire isn’t dead after all and he returns to find that his brother is penetrating his wife and his children don’t like him anymore.

Tobey isn’t your friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man in this film! Some trivia has been floating around the internet for a while that Jake Gyllenhaal would have played Peter Parker in Spider-Man 2 if Maguire’s back problems didn’t improve. I guess sleeping with his on-screen wife is Gyllenhaal’s payback.

  • http://OAKside24.deviantART.com OAKside

    “However, it turns out Tobey Maguire isn’t dead after all and he returns to find that his brother is penetrating his wife and his children don’t like him anymore.”

    *adds to IMDb Wanted list*

  • Bijou

    Finally! We can see what happens in the end of this movie! I've been anticipating it all summer. I think the trailer tries to make you think you know the ending, but it will probably be a surprise.

  • Bijou

    Finally! We can see what happens in the end of this movie! I've been anticipating it all summer. I think the trailer tries to make you think you know the ending, but it will probably be a surprise.

  • http://www.r4-ds-carta.it/ m3 ds

    I'd like to know if you had to do any special preparation to do these roles? Did you get to see the Danish film this is based on? Or did you just go into this cold?