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Affliction

Year:

1999

Duration:

114 min

Genres:

Drama | Mystery | Thriller

IMDB rate:

Director:

Paul Schrader

Awards:

Won Oscar. Another 11 wins & 15 nominations

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1999-02-19

Filming Locations: Huntingdon, Quebec, Canada

Earnings

Budget: $6,000,000

Opening Weekend: $63,979 (USA) (3 January 1999)

Gross: $6,302,154 (USA) (16 May 1999)

Cast

Actor

Character

Steve Adams

Affliction

Nick Nolte

Wade Whitehouse

Brigid Tierney

Jill Whitehouse

Holmes Osborne

Gordon LaRiviere

Jim True-Frost

Jack Hewitt

Tim Post

Chick Ward

Christopher Heyerdahl

Frankie Lacoy

Marian Seldes

Alma Pittman

Janine Theriault

Hettie Rogers

Mary Beth Hurt

Lillian Whitehouse Horner

Paul Stewart

Mr. Horner

Sissy Spacek

Margie Fogg

Wayne Robson

Nick Wickham

Sean McCann

Evan Twombley

Sheena Larkin

Lugene Brooks

Penny Mancuso

Woman Driver

Danielle Desormeaux

Elaine

Charles Edwin Powell

Jimmy Dane

Donovan Reiter

Short-Haired Local

James Coburn

Glen Whitehouse

Brawley Nolte

Young Wade Whitehouse

Michael Caloz

Young Rolfe Whitehouse

Joanna Noyes

Sally Whitehouse

Marcel Jeannin

State Trooper

Susan Almgren

Mrs. Gordon

Willem Dafoe

Rolfe Whitehouse

Martha-Marie Kleinhans

Lena Whitehouse

Mark Camacho

Clyde - Lena's Husband

Ralph Allison

Reverend Doughty

Eugene Lipinski

Atty. J. Battle Hand

Did you know?

Trivia

When the family reunites for Sally Whitehouse's funeral, Rolfe (Willem Dafoe) is asked by his sister if he's a serious Christian, which he denies. Dafoe played Jesus in The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) nine years before.

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Nick Nolte and Willem Dafoe would later act in Paris, je t'aime (2006).

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During their praise of the film, Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel noted that James Coburn was the perfect kind of person that seems like he could intimidate a man like Nick Nolte, who is famous for playing domineering and blustery men.

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Goofs

Wade gets the two beers out of the refrigerator. They are already open.

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When on the deer hunt, in a shot from above Jack is shown putting the index finger of his left hand to his mouth to signal his wealthy customer to be silent, but in the next shot it's his right index finger.

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Filmed in Quebec, in January and February 1997, the movie, which happens in a New Hampshire town, opens on Halloween day, late October. There is never that much snow on the ground, if at all, late October, in New Hampshire (or Quebec for that matter).

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Quotes

Rolfe Whitehouse: [First lines] This is the story of my older brother's strange criminal behaviour and disappearance. We who loved him no longer speak of Wade. It's as if he never existed.

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Rolfe Whitehouse: But at least I was never afflicted by that man's violence.

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Lena Whitehouse: How about you Rolfe? Are you saved?

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