Variety is reporting that John Cusack has signed on to star in Grace is Gone for Plum Pictures and first time director James C. Strouse.
The film was penned by Strouse and centers on a father who takes his two daughters on a road trip upon learning that his wife has been killed in the line of duty in Iraq.
Shooting is scheduled to start in April.
Cusack can be seen in The Ice Harvest, which just hit DVD and will be seen in Martian Child later this year for New Line.
