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Snow Cake (2006)

Snow Cake poster
Directed by
Marc Evans
Genre
drama film, independent film
Country
United Kingdom, Canada
Runtime
1h 52m
Rated
NR
Rating
7.1 of 10 from 193 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A British man is involved in a car accident that kills a young woman. He then goes to meet her mother, who is autistic, and their unlikely friendship forms the basis of the story.

bittersweetcontemplativegentleintrospectivepoignantslow-pacedtenderunderstated

What happens

Snow Cake is a 2006 independent romantic comedy drama film directed by Marc Evans and starring Alan Rickman, Sigourney Weaver, Carrie-Anne Moss, Emily Hampshire, and Callum Keith Rennie. It was released on 8 September 2006, in the United Kingdom. Filmed in Wawa, Ontario, Snow Cake is a drama about the relationship between autistic Linda (Weaver), and British tourist Alex (Rickman), who has a change of heart after a deadly automobile accident involving himself and Linda's daughter Vivienne (Hampshire). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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