Snow Angels is a 2007 drama film starring Sam Rockwell and Kate Beckinsale. It was directed by David Gordon Green, who also wrote the screenplay adapted from Stewart ONans 1994 novel of the same title. The film premiered in the dramatic competition at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. It is a character driven film centered on several characters dealing with loss of innocence in a small town. Snow Angels was released onMarch 2008.
The film received generally positive reviews from critics. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports a 68 approval rating with an average rating of 6.810 based on 110 reviews. The websites consensus reads, With fine acting and considerable emotional depth, Snow Angels aptly captures the highs, and especially the lows of human relationships. Metacritic reported the film had an average score of 67 out of 100, based onreviews.Steven Rea of the Philadelphia Inquirer called the film a compelling, and grim, portrait of smalltown lives gone wrong, disturbingly good, while also writing, the films characters get inside your skin, your soul. Its enough to make you want to cry. Richard Corliss of Time wrote, The films success is due in large part to actors who are both faithful to all the social minutiae and seductive enough to keep you watching. He also praised director David Gordon Green for his gift, to show how people learn codes of affection and aggression from watching movies, but when they try to pull them off in crucial situations they come out awkward, embarrassed and futile. ........
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