Its original look at loyalty and loss subsides into a forgettable love story, leading it out of the darkness and straight into schmaltzville.

With a relentless playlist of rock stand-bys, the film careers between jaunty and maudlin.

Moonlight Mile might be the single most honest film ever made on the subject of grief. Not about death or dying, loss or regret, but about the grieving process itself: the highs, lows, in-betweens and the way all of them wrap, loop and intertwine.

This very small movie quiets its cast down and guides them into subtle, human-scaled performances.