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SNOW ANGELS

Warner Bros Home Video / Region 1 / Released on 16 September 2008 and rated R

Featuring Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell, Michael Angarano, Amy Sedaris

Snow Angels brings us something to think about in a highly charged film full of fine performances. Based on the novel by Stewart O'Nan and directed by the brilliant David Gordon Green, Snow Angels is a tale of small town life with a tragic center. Quite an ensemble piece with the cast led by Kate Beckinsale as waitress Annie, who has split from her husband Glenn (Sam Rockwell) and is trying to cope with life as a single mum but also embroiled in an affair with the husband of her best friend Barb (Amy Sedaris). High school student Arthur (the excellent Michael Angarano) has a part time job at the same Chinese restaurant as Annie and Barb and has the serious hots for Annie (who just happens to have been his babysitter years earlier) and is also finding out a few things about love from fellow student Lila (Played by Olivia Thirlby).

As with any situation where secrets and lies are piled ever higher, so the stakes grow higher too and it is inevitable that Glenn is going to find out about Annie affair and spill the beans, his doing so sparks off a major series of events that leads to a very real and devastating tragedy. Not always an easy film to watch but Green is a superb director whose very real style of film-making always draws major performances out of his players and it is young Angarano who holds things together here.

Snow Angels is a highly recommended drama for those who want to watch something with a bit of substance. No extras but the disc does include both widescreen and full screen versions of the movie.

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