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Cast
- Joshua JacksonDuncan Shorter
- Donald SutherlandRonald Shorter
- Juliette LewisKate
- Louise FletcherRuth Shorter
- Steven PasqualeJacob Shorter
- Katie GriffinSandy
- Zack WardLindstrom
- Tyler LabineFinn
- Niamh WilsonIsabelle
- Mark AndradaClerk
Recommendations
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TV Guide Magazine
The real surprise here is Lewis, who seems to have finally hit on a role that balances her usual flakiness with smarts and an offbeat poignancy, and she delivers the strongest work of her adult career. - 70
Variety
Alternately breezy and profound, pic hits enough emotional chords to connect with audiences, which will be charmed by a newly mature Joshua Jackson, a deeply aged Donald Sutherland and a friskily romantic Juliette Lewis. - 70
Salon
Juliette Lewis makes Aurora Borealis into a funnier, richer, more powerful film than it has any reason to be. - 67
Entertainment Weekly
Lewis, in particular, is a charmer; it's a loss that she never became an A-lister. And Jackson is, as always, earnestness itself. The movie would be a quality guilty-gloopy pleasure if it weren't so deadly overlong. - 63
New York Daily News
The latest "Dawson's Creek" alumnus to break out of his WB bonds, Joshua Jackson proves himself all grown up in this sweetly scrappy indie. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
Although it is overloaded with backstory and often tries too hard, Aurora Borealis finds a reasonable balance between romance and family drama. - 60
Village Voice
Aurora Borealisulth -- yes, that title eventually comes home to roost -- doesn't offend in any way, but it's so self-consciously quaint, so unwaveringly "nice," that you nearly wish it did. - 50
The New York Times
The fixation of independent movies on the arrested development of bourgeois dullards may have less to do with the relevance of the topic than the class of people who get to make movies. Whatever the case, James Burke directs from a screenplay by Brent Boyd.
