Snow Falling on Cedars

Name: Snow Falling on Cedars
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Romance
Released: December 22, 1999
Duration: 127 min
Rating: 44
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Max von Sydow

1999

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MCA/Universal Pictures | Release Date: December 22, 1999 | PG-13

Starring: Ethan Hawke, Max von Sydow

Summary: Set against the backdrop of the national crisis that erupted following Japan's bombing of Pearl Harbor, this is an elegiac, multi-layered exploration of memory, love and reconciliation on an island in the Pacific Northwest. (Universal Pictures)

Director: Scott Hicks

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Romance

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 127 min

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TNT RoughCut Christopher Brandon

Scott Hicks adapts David Guterson's best-selling novel as if it was poetry.

Lawrence Toppman

Reflective, deliberate, building gradually to a climax that left me touched. Read full review

Marjorie Baumgarten

Fails to completely engage the viewer at the basic level of story. Read full review

Michael Wilmington

Movies made from serious novels are often ridiculed as unworthy of their sources, but this one may be too worthy -- too reverent, too showy, too earnest. Read full review

Film.com Robert Horton

Not a crowd-pleasing, or even audience-oriented, movie; it's a two-hour-plus mood piece. Read full review

Todd McCarthy

Impeccably crafted but dramatically dull. Read full review

Ann Hornaday

Ultimately groans under the weight of its own quiet gorgeousness. Read full review

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SusanF.

Mar 21, 2006

Mesmerizing film- beautifully done - provacative and above all heart wrenching movie.

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LunaM.

Apr 9, 2008

The scattered fragments of the story are overwhelmed by the film's weighty, somber, pretentious cinematography and score. Visually poetic and lovingly photographed. But one ponderously slow scene follows another. Snippets of same are then repeated through flashbacks. Over-use of crying The scattered fragments of the story are overwhelmed by the film's weighty, somber, pretentious cinematography and score. Visually poetic and lovingly photographed. But one ponderously slow scene follows another. Snippets of same are then repeated through flashbacks. Over-use of crying babies to dramatize bad news. Plenty of passion and talent were behind the making of this movie, but for me it was too self-conscious, gloomy and (watch as the rain drips drips drips) SLOW.… Expand

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