The trailer for post-Afghanistan drama ‘Brothers’ has hit the intertubes and has the one time rivals for the Spider-Man role now battling it out for Natalie Portman’s hand.

When young soldier Sam (Tobey Maguire) is shot down and classed MIA in Afghanistan, his drifter brother Tommy (Jake Gyllenhaal) steps in to take care of his children and wife Grace (Natalie Portman). One thing leads to another and before you can say, ‘Dude, that’s kinda wrong’, Tommy and Grace and going at it like teenagers. Unfortunately, Sam is rescued by the military and comes back home.

So yeah, it’s the love plot from Michael Bay’s Pearl Harbor, with Tobey Maguire taking on the Ben Affleck role. Only this time there’s a bit more American History X-style-standing-in-front-of-the-house-waving-a-gun-around drama.

Brothers is directed by Jim Sheridan (My Left Foot, In the Name of the Father, er, Get Rich or Die Tryin’) and is released on 4th December 2009.