Affliction R
Like father like son...?
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 55 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 20, 2003
- Originally Released: 1997
- Label: Lions Gate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | James Coburn, Sissy Spacek, Nick Nolte & Willem Dafoe | |
Directed by | Paul Schrader |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1998 -
Best Supporting Actor: James Coburn
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: A- --
Schrader has skillfully turned Banks' novel into a compelling character study.
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Murphy's Movie Reviews
Rating: A- --
Affliction is a shattering film, a dose of bracing naturalism based on Russell Banks' most lacerating novel.
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Rating: 3.5/5 --
"Affliction'' stands as one of [Paul] Schrader's finest efforts, but the real star is [Russell] Banks, who tells a small story with universal implications and explores the devastating affliction of violence between men.
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Hartford Courant
...[Nolte acts] with fierce, anguished intensity....[He] gives the performance of his career in Paul Schrader's quietly stunning new film...
New York Times
...[James Coburn gives] what may be the best performance of his career...
USA Today
There are too many of these men in life, and not enough films that tell their sad tales. That gives Affliction a therapeutic worth.
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TIME Magazine
...Intense....This is a great performance by Nolte....AFFLICTION is one of the year's strongest dramas...
Los Angeles Times
Product Description:
Based on the novel by Russell Banks, AFFLICTION is a sobering, absorbing psychological study of the precarious relationship between an abusive father and his two sons. Wade Whitehouse (Nick Nolte) is a middle-aged ineffectual sheriff in a small New Hampshire town, where he and his brother, Rolfe (Willem Dafoe), were raised. When events shatter the quiet of his small town, Wade is forced to confront the past and reexamine his life, attempting a reconciliation with his abusive, alcoholic dad, Glen (James Coburn), by moving back home to look after him. This quietly intense, haunting, and beautifully filmed story unfolds against the harsh snow-white backdrop of a town where everyone knows each other. But more than anything, it is the brilliant performances of its cast that mark this film.
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- UPC: 031398830627
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