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Affliction
A small town policeman must investigate a suspicious hunting accident. The investigation and other events result in him slowly disintegrating mentally.
1998 · Directed by Paul Schrader · 114 min · Crime · Drama · Mystery · Thriller · Screenplay in the scene database · 13 frames
Tagline
Like father like son...?
Plot
Rolfe Whitehouse begins the film, announcing the story of his brother Wade's "strange criminal behavior" and subsequent disappearance.
Wade Whitehouse is a small-town policeman in New Hampshire. On Halloween night, Wade meets his daughter Jill, but he is late and the evening is overshadowed by disharmony. Jill eventually calls her mother, Wade's ex-wife, to come and pick her up. When his ex-wife finally arrives, Wade shoves her husband against their car and watches them drive away with Jill. Wade vows to get a lawyer to help gain custody of his daughter.
The next day, Wade rushes to the scene of a crime. Jack Hewitt, a local hunting guide, claims that Evan Twombley, with whom he was hunting, accidentally shot and killed himself. The police believe Jack, but Wade grows suspicious, believing that Twombley was killed by Jack. When he is informed that the victim was scheduled to testify in a lawsuit, his suspicion slowly turns into conviction.
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Crew
- Screenplay: Paul Schrader
- Cinematography: Paul Sarossy
- Edited by: Jay Rabinowitz
- Music: Michael Brook
- Production design: Anne Pritchard
- Produced by: Linda Reisman
Cast
- Nick Nolte as Wade Whitehouse
- Sissy Spacek as Margie Fogg
- James Coburn as Glen Whitehouse
- Willem Dafoe as Rolfe Whitehouse
- Mary Beth Hurt as Lillian
- Jim True-Frost as Jack Hewitt
- Marian Seldes as Alma Pittman
- Holmes Osborne as Gordon LaRiviere
- Brigid Tierney as Jill
- Sean McCann as Evan Twombley
Production
- Country: United States of America, Canada, Japan
- Language: English
- Studios: Largo Entertainment, Reisman / Kingsgate Productions
- Budget: $6,000,000
- Box office: $6,330,054
- Themes: small town, based on novel or book, winter, abusive father, halloween, new hampshire, hunting accident, alcoholism, snow, domestic violence
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