Often with the feel of a stage play, Snow Cake is a delicate little drama that shows real understanding of its characters.
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08/26/08
Snow Cake (2007)
66 %
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Reviews Counted: 58
Fresh: 38
Rotten:20
Average Rating: 6/10
Consensus: Sigourney Weaver gracefully undertakes a difficult role, while the rest of the cast lifts the histrionic plot into something worthwhile.
Runtime: 1 hr 52 mins
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release: Apr 27, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: Alan Rickman has a made a career of stealing scenes in supporting roles, but he takes the lead in SNOW CAKE. Whether he's playing Severus Snape in the Harry Potter movie or the voice of God in DOGMA, Rickman provides a fascinating combination... [More]
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Carrie-Anne Moss, Emily Hampshire
Director: Marc Evans
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Reviews for Snow Cake
a worthy effort toward bringing an increasingly prevalent disorder to filmgoers' attention
09/10/07
Snow Cake never entertains too much pathos nor does it become overly concerned with making Weaver’s character even slightly sympathetic; her uncensored forthrightness is as refreshingly humane as it is hilarious.
08/23/07
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08/03/07
Everyone and everything is surprising in this arresting film whose heart is as warm as its setting is cold
07/28/07
in the end, it's as viable as its titular confection: pretty to look at but cold.
07/14/07
It's essentially a vehicle for a dedicated cast, but occasionally it's more than that.
07/06/07
Three very intelligent actors -- Rickman, Moss and Sigourney Weaver -- elevate what could have been cloying into something better than the script's idiosyncratic bent.
07/05/07
Director Marc Evans, working from Angela Pell's screenplay, pulls it off in a limited way but with emotional sensitivity and a solid cast.
06/28/07
At times it seems so anxious to blatantly manipulate us into tears and slows down with Alex’s romance with a sexy neighbor a la Carrie Anne Moss, and then at times it’s beautiful, and intimate, and so wonderfully acted.
06/05/07
Weaver makes Linda her own, alternating between off-putting brashness, engaging honesty and bursts of spontaneous, childlike behavior.
06/01/07
Top Critic Weaver and Rickman and screenwriter Angela Pell elevate the film into something quite endearing.
06/01/07
Lack of dramatic intensity is all the more surprising considering the emotional clout of helmer Marc Evans' two best movies, the chilling Resurrection Man and scarefest My Little Eye.
06/01/07
Top Critic Marc Evans' small-scale drama focuses on the offbeat relationship between a chronically depressed man and an autistic woman, and with a lesser cast it would be insufferable.
06/01/07
Overly forced, a shade too whimsical, but filling a void other words and other movies haven't the nerve or errant taste to confront.
06/01/07
Top Critic What could have been a schmarmy, overly sentimental film is, instead, one of decent filmmaking and good acting.
06/01/07
Alex first appears in Snow Cake aboard a plane, embodying an obvious contradiction, in motion and still at the same time.
05/30/07
Hampshire's sudden departure from Snow Cake is as shocking as the demise of star Janet Leigh was from Psycho in its day - she creates that strong a character.
05/28/07
Snow Cake reflects a sense of the almost infinite ways autism manifests itself, in all its baffling and fascinating and sometimes agonizing realities.
05/25/07
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April 24, 2007:
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