Affliction with Nick Nolte: DVD Cover

    Affliction Director: Paul Schrader Cast: Nick Nolte, James Coburn, Sissy Spacek, Willem Dafoe

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    • DVD Release Date: 05/20/2003
    • Original Release: 1997
    • Rating: Rated R
    • Sales Rank: 16,111

    Viewer Rating: (3 ratings)

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    Closed Caption; 16x9 widescreen (1.78:1); Subtitles: English & Spanish

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    Scene Index

    Side #1 --
    1. Never Existed [6:03]
    2. Master of Ceremonies [6:18]
    3. Irreplaceable [5:39]
    4. Small Town [5:33]
    5. Stay Close [3:58]
    6. The Sign [4:25]
    7. Accident [5:28]
    8. Big Fight [4:36]
    9. Strangers [4:13]
    10. Take a Look [5:06]
    11. On Our Knees [3:16]
    12. Snow Line [4:28]
    13. All Hell [2:50]
    14. Loony Tunes [5:10]
    15. Old Friends [6:27]
    16. Late [4:48]
    17. Milk & Sugar [4:14]
    18. Let It Go [3:50]
    19. Shame [2:24]
    20. Nothing Happened [6:02]
    21. My Heart [5:38]
    22. Love You [5:41]
    23. Historical Facts [4:39]
    24. End Credits [3:15]

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    Editorial Reviews

    Nick Nolte and James Coburn deliver some of the finest work of their respective careers in this powerful but troubling adaptation of Russell Banks's novel. Wade Whitehouse (Nick Nolte) is the sheriff in a small New England town; it's a part-time job with few taxing responsibilities, and Wade fills his many free hours by swilling booze, smoking pot, and thinking back on his nightmarish childhood. Wade's father Glen (James Coburn) was by turns callous, distant, and abusive, and Wade has inherited his addiction to alcohol and inability to deal with others. Consequently, Wade's ex-wife (Mary Beth Hurt) despises him, his daughter is uncomfortable and frightened in his presence, and the only person who can reach him is his loving but long-suffering girlfriend Margie (Sissy Spacek). When a wealthy businessman is killed in a hunting accident, Wade suspects foul play and pursues the case with an obsession that puzzles all around him; meanwhile, Wade's mother dies and his brother Rolfe (Willem Dafoe), the only one in the family to escape Glen's abuse without crippling emotional scars, returns to pay his respects and is caught up once again in the damaged lives of his father and brother. James Coburn) won an Academy award for Best Supporting Actor for his work in Affliction, while Nick Nolte was nominated for Best Actor (he lost to Roberto Benigni). Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

    Customer Reviews

    Bleak, but powerful.by Hugo-Z-Hackenbush

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    February 27, 2009: My brother had watched Affliction about a year ago; he wouldn't tell me much about it, just that we would understand it. I watched it without any preconceptions about the plot or the acting, only afterward did I research the film. In Affliction, there is only Nick Nolte; everyone else is overwhelmed by his role, a man fighting the undertow of his past, and slowly failing. I have never scene such raw tension on the screen, and it is unsettling. Spacek, Coburn and Dafoe, are as always excellent. Dafoe provides narration and an incredible, succinct epilouge. But Affliction is Noltes, probably the best work he has ever done.

    A must see for anyone with a family or, personal problem with Alcoholby Anonymous

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    August 21, 2008: I saw this film when it first came out on VHS,and walked away with the knowledge of what it meant to come from a dysfunctional family Later in my life I became in Alcoholic, and watch again while in treatment and then I knew the meaning on a whole different basis


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