Indivisible

Indivisible tackles a subject Christian films rarely touch: the specific trauma of military chaplaincy. Justin Bruening plays Darren Turner with a Boy Scout earnestness that works perfectly for a man who believes he can minister to soldiers in a combat zone. Sarah Drew (Grey's Anatomy) is excellent as his wife Heather, stuck stateside with three kids and a husband who comes home but isn't really back. The Iraq sequences are well-produced and don't feel like a TV budget trying to be Hurt Locker. The film's real power is in the homecoming — watching a good man and a good marriage unravel because neither person can articulate what they've been through. The marital counseling scenes are uncomfortably realistic. Jason George provides strong support as a fellow soldier whose faith journey mirrors Turner's. Where it slightly overreaches is in trying to cover too many subplots — the secondary military characters needed either more development or fewer minutes. But as a portrait of how war damages the people it doesn't kill, Indivisible has a specificity and courage that deserves attention.