‘Rabbit’ food

One of the most critically praised and yet little seen films of 2010 arrives on DVD this week in the heartbreaking family drama Rabbit Hole. In a narrative fit for a John Irving story, Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart star as a blissful couple whose life is turned upside down by the accidental death of their young son. Both husband and wife deal with the tragedy in opposite ways. Kidman deflects the off-putting but well-meaning advice of friends and family and enters into an obsessive relationship with the troubled young artist who killed her son behind the wheel of his car. Meanwhile Eckhart withdraws from her by refusing to move on with his life and living only in the past, a past that was devoted to his child. Based on the 2005 play by David Lindsay-Abaire, Rabbit Hole is the third feature film from actor and Hedwig and the Angry Inch director John Cameron Mitchell. Sandra Oh and Dianne Wiest co-star. Rated PG-13.