Snow Cake (2006)

User Rating:

7.6/10   

Director:

Marc Evans

Writer:

Angela Pell (writer)

Release Date:

8 September 2006 (UK)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

Sometimes stopping is the most important part of the journey...

Plot:

A drama focused on the friendship between a high-functioning autistic woman (Weaver) and a man (Rickman) who is traumatized after a fatal car accident.

Plot Keywords:

Road Trip | Self Discovery | Truck | Small Town Life | McDonald's Restaurant

Awards:

1 win & 5 nominations

Cast

Alan Rickman	...	Alex Hughes
Emily Hampshire	...	Vivienne Freeman
Jackie Brown	...	Waitress
Callum Keith Rennie	...	John Neil
Scott Wickware	...	Senior Cop
Johnny Goltz	...	Rookie Cop
James Allodi	...	Clyde
Janet van de Graaf	...	Meryl
Carrie-Anne Moss	...	Maggie
Julie Stewart	...	Florence
Sigourney Weaver	...	Linda Freeman
Charlie	...	Marilyn the Dog
Selina Cadell	...	Diane Wooton
Nia Roberts	...	Janet, the vet
Dov Tiefenbach	...	Jack, the optician

Runtime:

112 min

Country:

UK | Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

UK:15 | Ireland:15A | Sweden:Btl | Germany:6 | Singapore:PG | Netherlands:MG6 | USA:Not Rated | Portugal:M/12 (Qualidade) | Malaysia:U

Filming Locations:

Grosso Jackson, Ontario, Canada

Company:

Revolution Films

Trivia:

Alan Rickman read the script and actually suggested Sigourney Weaver for the role of Linda. He even telephoned Weaver, and told her she had to read the script, as there was a role he felt she could play perfectly in it.

Goofs:

Errors in geography: At the end of the film when Alex is driving to Winnipeg, he's actually going back into Wawa, therefore heading east and not west.

Quotes:

Linda Freeman: Perfectamundo.

Movie Connections:

References North by Northwest (1959)

Soundtrack:

Notteru Ondo

sentimental

I just got back from the premiere of this movie at the Berlinale. It's a little story about the friendship of man, Alex, who still can't forget a mysterious, traumatizing past, and an autistic woman, Linda (S. Weaver). The humanness of Alex, and the deep sadness of being aware of what happened, contrasts with the fairy-tale-like world of Linda, who seems to live with no consciousness for the past or the future, avoiding suffering and flying light in the world just like a snow flake. The performances of the actors, of Rickman in particular, are outstanding, and the characters are showed with intimacy and delicate attention to details. The close ups face Carrie- Anne Moss, a kind of (unrealistic) femme fatale in the middle of nowhere, gently whispering in dim light, are worth the ticket. But i didn't completely buy the script. Shouldn't it be more difficult for Alex to get into Linda's house? Shouldn't a man which such a traumatic past behave like an eighteenth century English gentleman? Morever, as far as I know about psychiatry, Linda is a mixture of mental disease stereotypes, more than an actual autistic. I gave 7, because I liked the effort of making of a tragic story a kind of hymn to life, sometimes even funny.