Get 'Incredibly Close' to Sandra Bullock

If there's such a thing as a typical 9/11 movie, "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" is definitely not it.

Stephen Daldry's adaptation of the Jonathan Safran Foer novel forgoes scenes of destruction and civic grief to offer a microcosmic portrait of a young man, touched by tragedy on that day, who copes with its aftermath in the only way he knows how: by going on an adventure.

Newcomer Thomas Horn plays Oskar Schell, a 9-year-old traversing New York City looking for a lock that fits the key he found in the closet of his father Thomas (Tom Hanks), one year after his dad's death on 9/11. Oscar winner Sandra Bullock plays Oskar's mom Linda, struggling with her own grief and desperately trying to reach out to her distant, obsessed son.

amNewYork got a chance to speak with Bullock about the film, which opens Sunday, at a press conference.