Affliction

Affliction is a 1998 film written and directed by Paul Schrader from the novel by Russell Banks. It stars Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, James Coburn, Willem Dafoe, Mary Beth Hurt and Jim True. It tells the story of Wade Whitehouse (Nolte), a small-town policeman in New Hampshire, whose investigation of an apparent hunting accident is influenced by his relationship with a violent, alcoholic father (Coburn), his increasing obsession with his past, his ... more

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  • 1997

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  • 114 min (68.4 hs )

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Paul Schrader

Paul Joseph Schrader (born July 22, 1946) is an American screenwriter and film director. His influences include Robert Bresson, Yasujiro Ozu and Carl Dreyer, whose cross-cultural similarities he examined in Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer (ISBN 0-306-80335-6) in 1972. Despite his...

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  • Wade Whitehouse is frightened to death of following in his father's footsteps.

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  • 114 min (68.4 hs )

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