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A second trailer (watch it after the jump!), more photos (featuring the lead cast) and an interview with Tobey Maguire at the LA Times. Apparently, the marketing campaign for Jim Sheridan's latest film, Brothers, is well underway!

Our recent spotlight article on Jake Gyllenhaal offered some details on his character, Tommy Cahill. The character study came from Jake's co-star Tobey Maguire during his interview at the LA Times.
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Maguire also made the following comment regarding Americans who were sent to war:

In the area of our veterans coming home with traumas or PTSD or whatever, it's one of those issues that isn't pretty to look at," Maguire says. "We ask these people to fight for us and risk their lives, and certainly potentially alter their outlook of the world or how they react to things. I think it would be nice for us as a society to have some more awareness of what they go through, and to take on some more responsibility for the results of our asking them to go over there. [ read more ]

Watch the second trailer below:

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What the Movie is all about: When a decorated Marine goes missing overseas, his black-sheep younger brother cares for his wife and children at home-with consequences that will shake the foundation of the entire family. BROTHERS tells the powerful story of two siblings, thirtysomething Captain Sam Cahill (Tobey Maguire) and younger brother Tommy Cahill (Jake Gyllenhaal), who are polar opposites. A Marine about to embark on his fourth tour of duty, Sam is a steadfast family man married to his high school sweetheart, the aptly named Grace (Natalie Portman), with whom he has two young daughters (Bailee Madison, Taylor Grace Geare). Tommy, his charismatic younger brother, is a drifter just out of jail who's always gotten by on wit and charm. He slides easily into his role as family provocateur on his first night out of prison, at Sam's farewell dinner with their parents, Elsie (Mare Winningham) and Hank Cahill (Sam Shepard), a retired Marine.
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