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Affliction

- Like father like son...?

A small town policeman must investigate a suspicious hunting accident. The investigation and other events result in him slowly disintegrating mentally.

Release Date : 1998-02-12

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Kingsgate FilmsLargo EntertainmentLionsgateJVC Entertainment Networks

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Wade Whitehouse

Original Name : Nick Nolte

Gender : Male

Character Name : Margie Fogg

Original Name : Sissy Spacek

Gender : Female

Character Name : Glen Whitehouse

Original Name : James Coburn

Gender : Male

Character Name : Rolfe Whitehouse

Original Name : Willem Dafoe

Gender : Male

Character Name : Lillian

Original Name : Mary Beth Hurt

Gender : Female

Character Name : Jack Hewitt

Original Name : Jim True-Frost

Gender : Male

Character Name : Alma Pittman

Original Name : Marian Seldes

Gender : Female

Character Name : Gordon LaRiviere

Original Name : Holmes Osborne

Gender : Male

Character Name : Jill

Original Name : Brigid Tierney

Gender : Female

Character Name : Evan Twombley

Original Name : Sean McCann

Gender : Male

Character Name : Nick Wickham

Original Name : Wayne Robson

Gender : Male

Character Name : J. Battle Hand

Original Name : Eugene Lipinski

Gender : Male

Character Name : Chick Ward

Original Name : Tim Post

Gender : Male

Character Name : Frankie Lacoy

Original Name : Christopher Heyerdahl

Gender : Male

Character Name : Hettie Rogers

Original Name : Janine Theriault

Gender : Female

Character Name : Horner

Original Name : Paul Stewart

Gender : Male

Character Name : Lugene Brooks

Original Name : Sheena Larkin

Gender : Female

Character Name : Woman Driver

Original Name : Penny Mancuso

Gender : Male

Character Name : Elaine

Original Name : Danielle Desormeaux

Gender : Male

Character Name : Short-haired Local

Original Name : Donovan Reiter

Gender : Male

Character Name : Young Wade

Original Name : Brawley Nolte

Gender : Male

Character Name : Young Rolfe

Original Name : Michael Caloz

Gender : Male

Character Name : Sally Whitehouse

Original Name : Joanna Noyes

Gender : Female

Character Name : State Trooper

Original Name : Marcel Jeannin

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mrs. Gordon

Original Name : Susan Almgren

Gender : Female

Character Name : Mel Gordon

Original Name : Steve Adams

Gender : Male

Character Name : Lena

Original Name : Martha-Marie Kleinhans

Gender : Male

Character Name : Clyde

Original Name : Mark Camacho

Gender : Male

Character Name : Reverend Doughty

Original Name : Ralph Allison

Gender : Male

Character Name : Jimmy Dane

Original Name : Charles Edwin Powell

Gender : Male

Reviews

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2024-05-15

There's always something more affecting about a story set above a wintery snowline, and though this drama in itself is not really anything special, the effort from Nick Nolte is. "Wade" is the local sheriff who is held in disdain by just about everyone from his disparaging ex-wife (Mary Beth Hurt) to his brute of a father (James Coburn). Then he hears of a fatal hunting accident and decides to investigate. Finally with some purpose, he begins to suspect that this wasn't just a simple slip on the ice incident, but that there are more nefarious plans afoot that could affect everyone living in this small community. As his self-imposed pressure mounts, we realise that he is only just on the right side of sane and is really struggling to keep it that way. Initially his investigations are derided but that just seems to galvanise him further, and drive him nearer to the edge. Might he be right about the conspiracy? Well that's not so important as the really potent effort from Nolte as a man dealing with a backstory from hell, a family who are at best indifferent to his plight, and an increasingly toxic professional reality that gradually sees him reduced to nothing - an angry and despairing nothing. It's all about obsession, and about the dangers to the mind and body when that is unfettered. Coburn features menacingly, if sparingly, and Sissy Spacek also works well as the concerned but wary "Margie". It has something of the sins of the father about it, and sees this actor give what is, for me anyway, his career best performance. It's at times quite a depressing and bleak film, but no worse for that.