
On a cold afternoon, with snow on the ground, the high school band is practicing for the last football game. They hear shots. Flashback a few weeks before. Arthur is a high school student, bussing at a restaurant. Annie and Barb are waitresses there - Annie was Arthur's babysitter when he was little. She's now separated from her husband Glenn, who's on the wagon, starting a new job, praying to Jesus, and trying to prove he has his balance back so he can see more of their smal... (Full plot summary below)
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On a cold afternoon, with snow on the ground, the high school band is practicing for the last football game. They hear shots. Flashback a few weeks before. Arthur is a high school student, bussing at a restaurant. Annie and Barb are waitresses there - Annie was Arthur's babysitter when he was little. She's now separated from her husband Glenn, who's on the wagon, starting a new job, praying to Jesus, and trying to prove he has his balance back so he can see more of their small daughter, Tara. Annie's seeing someone else, Arthur's parents have just separated, and Arthur is attracted to Lila, a new student at the high school. It's a small town, people's lives cross.
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| Montreal Film JournalKevin N. LaforestClose in spirit to George Washington and All the Real Girls, with quirky characters, a bittersweet tone and an effortless sense of time and place. |
| eFilmCritic.comPeter SobczynskiA strangely exhilarating and undeniably powerful work of American cinema that is sure to go down as one of the very best films of the year. |
| Aisle SeatMike McGranaghanEvery so often, a movie comes along that knocks the wind out of you. Snow Angels is one of them. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsGreen is a rare bird in American filmmaking: a humanist who knows how to tell a story. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanDavid Gordon Green's captivating winter-chill tragedy, is a tale that encompasses murder, divorce, adultery, alcohol abuse, mental breakdown, and the disappearance of a small child. In other words, it's downbeat enough to make the recent Oscar-nominated films look like party games. |
| Philadelphia WeeklySean BurnsThis wonderfully distinctive filmmaker is suffering growing pains, trying to wrestle his meandering, oddball sensibilities into the requirements of conventional genre forms. |
| rec.arts.movies.reviewsDavid N. ButterworthBy the time this intense, well-made drama has run its inevitable course you might well want to collapse in the snow and wave your own arms up and down in surrender. |
| Arkansas Democrat-GazettePhilip MartinThere is brutality in Snow Angels, but little bitterness. Like sunlight on ice, its painful beauty glints and stabs the eyes. |
| Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)John Beifuss'We love you no matter what your job is,' a character tells her son. That's a love that this very humanistic if dark film asks us to extend to everybody, even those whose sins invite outrage and disgust. |
| Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaDisturbingly good. The writing and the performances are such that as things go from bad (sad motel-room affairs) to worse (a 4-year-old gone missing), the film's characters get inside your skin, your soul. It's enough to make you want to cry. |