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Release Date:
15 January 1999 (USA)
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Tagline:
Wade Whitehouse is frightened to death of following in his father's footsteps.
Plot:
A deeply troubled small town cop investigates a suspicious hunting death while events occur that cause him to mentally disintergrate. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
Won Oscar.
Another 7 wins
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13 nominations
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Inside track on the Oscars' supporting actor race
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Exclusive: Paul Schrader On His Unlikely Reinvention as a Bollywood Auteur
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Nick Nolte | ... | Wade Whitehouse |
 | Brigid Tierney | ... | Jill Whitehouse |
| Holmes Osborne | ... | Gordon LaRiviere |
 | Jim True-Frost | ... | Jack Hewitt (as Jim True) |
 | Tim Post | ... | Chick Ward |
| Christopher Heyerdahl | ... | Frankie Lacoy (as Chris Heyerdahl) |
 | Marian Seldes | ... | Alma Pittman |
| Janine Theriault | ... | Hettie Rogers |
| Mary Beth Hurt | ... | Lillian Whitehouse Horner |
| Paul Stewart | ... | Mr. Horner |
 | Sissy Spacek | ... | Margie Fogg |
| Wayne Robson | ... | Nick Wickham |
 | Sean McCann | ... | Evan Twombley |
| Sheena Larkin | ... | Lugene Brooks |
| Penny Mancuso | ... | Woman Driver |
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Rated R for violence and language.
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114 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Netherlands:12 (re-rating) |
Netherlands:16 |
South Korea:18 |
Argentina:16 |
Australia:MA |
Chile:18 |
France:U |
Germany:12 |
Peru:18 |
Portugal:M/16 (video premiere) |
Singapore:PG |
UK:15 |
USA:R (certificate #35428) |
Iceland:12
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James Coburn came out of retirement to act in the film. He would later win an Oscar for his performance.
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Continuity: Wade puts his right hand's finger in his mouth because of his toothache, but when he turns his back to Margie he appears with his left hand's finger in his mouth.
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Quotes:
Rolfe Whitehouse:
[First lines] This is the story of my older brother's strange criminal behaviour and disappearance. We who loved him no longer speak of Wade. It's as if he never existed.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in The 56th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1999) (TV)
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Soundtrack:
Put the Hurt On You
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A walk in the park, a fine romance, a Indy Jones and the Last Crusade. Come on, a combination of Russell Banks and Paul Shrader, the author who explores a school bus accident and the writer/director from Taxi Driver, or The Comfort of Strangers. Did you really expect a happy ending? The film is a dark side vision of Richard Russo's Nobody's Fool, which Paul Newman and Robert Benton turned into a tale of redemption on screen in that same part of the world. No redemption here. As Wade's brother's final voice-over lets you know that Wade is still out there, reliving his father's life, you are relieved to be permitted to leave this claustrophobic world.
Painful scene after painful scene are piled on each other, none more so than the painful rejection of Wade by his little girl. Children go through periods where their parents are embarrassments to them, but in this case, it is more of a fear than a shame of Wade that makes her want to be in her mother's arms.
This is a great film of uncompromising realism. It is a modern Jude The Obscure, but at least you were allowed to see Jude when he had hope and some happiness, and at the end he simply wore himself out. At the end of Affliction, all that you know is that Wade is out there in the world, his angers banked.
The film works because of Nolte's performance. Coburn has an easier job, but he carries it off. The sub-plots mean little, but show us Wade/Nolte in a field of action, and demonstrate that it is not only his personal life that is a mess.
Odd that Banks' The Sweet Hereafter locale was moved from upstate New York to British Columbia, and this film of bare rock, flinty New Hampshire was made in Canada also.