Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3836 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-02-05
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 107 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Anchored by terrific performances from Sigourney Weaver and Alan Rickman, Snow Cake is a challenging, at times uneasy way to spend the best part of two hours. Yet it’s a strong, mature drama that deserves to be seen.

Weaver plays Linda Freeman, an active, autistic woman, and her path crosses with Rickman’s Alex Hughes. Hughes is the survivor of a car accident that’s killed Freeman’s daughter, and he’s still heavily traumatised as he seeks out Freeman to deliver the news.

Yet from this melancholy promise, Snow Cake then builds into an affirming, delicate drama of real merit. It’s in the small touches that it scores, ironically hitting its weakest moments when it tries to implement one or two ideas that don’t quite gel. But these are minor quibbles in an otherwise fine piece of cinema. Clearly its Rickman and Weaver’s film, but credit too should go to the able supporting cast, led by The Matrix’s Carrie-Ann Moss, along with Emily Hampshire and David Fox.

If you like your films simple and easy, then perhaps Snow Cake isn’t going to be your movie of choice. But if you’re willing to try something that’s restrained, challenging and in many ways surprising, then Snow Cake comes warmly commended. --Jon Foster

Synopsis
Acting heavyweights Alan Rickman and Sigourney Weaver star in this searing drama that delves into the way in which we handle grief. Stopping for a pretty hitchhiker, little does Alex (Alan Rickman) know that his simple act of kindness will change his life, forever, as the car carrying the couple crashes. Alex emerges from the accident, but Vivienne tragically dies. Wrought with guilt, Alex seeks out Vivienne’s family and aids her autistic mother Linda (Sigourney Weaver) with the funeral arrangements. However, Alex is unprepared for how Linda’s insular community embrace him…

Customer Reviews

A wonderful and uplifting experience
The best portrayal of Autism on screen I have ever seen. This is a tour de force from Sigourney Weaver as Linda, in her finest role, a role that is both funny and tragic in equal measure. She has perfectly captured the abrupt but innocent and logic driven mentality of someone with ASD. Alan Rickman is also excellent as the laconic ex-con who is forced upon Linda's world through a tragedy.

The film is beautifully and gently paced and as the father of a daughter with ASD I found it refreshing to find such an uplifting and accurate portrayal of the condition.

Just wonderful.

Please buy this beautiful film
This was the best film in 2006 I saw. The performances are amazing, the story beautiful. It is basically about being comfortable in your own skin by overcoming your inner demons. Snow Cake was not recognised at all at the Golden Globes, BAFTAs and probably not the Oscars - it is their loss - they are all stupid for not recognising this amazing and powerful film!!! Be apart of this experience and sit back and enjoy and get lost in Snow Cake - how "dazlious"!!!

The best film ever
This is the best film I have seen in such a long, long time. It is beautifully done and with a little humour. The actors are brilliant and I congratulate Weaver for her studying and befriending an autistic woman in the UK for her inspiration - it certainly paid off in the film.

I can't enthuse about this production enough - it should have won awards - buy it!