Unhappy homecoming. Maguire and Portman as walking, talking casualties of war.

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Featuring a premise that borders on maudlin, Brothers, director Jim Sheridan's adaptation of Susanne Bier's 2004 Danish film of the same title, achieves something akin to realism: It's obviously a construct but gets right to the heart of the matter. Marketed as a kind of hybrid love triangle/anti-war story, the film is pure agit-prop exposé, portraying the psychic trauma experienced by combat veterans and their families.