Toronto Opening Night: Jake Gyllenhaal Tears His Life Apart in 'Demolition' (Review and Roundup)

Jake Gyllenhaal earned applause last night in Toronto for his turn as a troubled investment banker who loses his moorings after the death of his wife in a car crash. He returns to work for his hard-charging father-in-law (Chris Cooper), but his well-ordered world is falling apart. Jean-Marc Vallée wanted to share this strange drama, based on an original screenplay by Bryan Sipe, with the Toronto crowd inside the Princess of Wales Theatre on opening night of TIFF, where audiences are friendly, media less so. The central conceit is that Davis Mitchell claws his way back to emotional health by writing a string of candid letters about himself to a...

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