Synopsis
A drama focused on the friendship between a high-functioning autistic woman and a man who is traumatized after a fatal car accident.
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Cast
- Alan RickmanAlex Hughes
- Sigourney WeaverLinda
- Carrie-Anne MossMaggie
- Emily HampshireVivienne Freeman
- James AllodiClyde
- Janet van de GraafMeryl
- Julie StewartFlorence
- Selina CadellDiane Wooton
- Callum Keith RennieJohn Neil
- David FoxDirk Freeman
Recommendations
- 75
USA Today
Most noteworthy for the performance of Sigourney Weaver as Linda, an autistic woman. - 75
TV Guide Magazine
Sigourney Weaver and Alan Rickman imbue screenwriter Angela Pell's characters with a quiet authenticity that's surprisingly moving. - 70
Village Voice
Does sidle up to the brink of mawkishness, but it pulls back so nicely into Weaver's rich, hard-headed evocation of Linda's limitations. - 70
Los Angeles Times
Modest but well wrought and witty, Snow Cake is full of unexpected moments and clever observations. - 58
The A.V. Club
If only Snow Cake had hewed closer to this idea of showing what an adult autist's life and experiences are like, rather than getting caught up in Rickman's rote re-awakening, it could've been as powerful as it strains to be. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
The mental and physical landscape would do justice to an Atom Egoyan film, but in this film, the key dramatic moments feel as forced as they are predictable. - 50
Variety
Boosted by a delish performance from Carrie-Anne Moss as a local vamp who helps unthaw the Englishman, but holed beneath the waterline by a gratingly miscast Sigourney Weaver as the persnickety autistic. - 50
The New York Times
Like "I Am Sam," it is a film that tests your cynicism.
