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  • 1999
  • PG-13
  • MCA/Universal Pictures
  • 2 h 7 m
  • 1999
  • PG-13
  • MCA/Universal Pictures
  • 2 h 7 m

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)

Directed By: Scott Hicks

Written By: David Guterson, Ron Bass, Scott Hicks

  • 1999
  • PG-13
  • MCA/Universal Pictures
  • 2 h 7 m
  • 1999
  • PG-13
  • MCA/Universal Pictures
  • 2 h 7 m

Snow Falling on Cedars

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 31 Critic Reviews
44
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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)

Directed By: Scott Hicks

Written By: David Guterson, Ron Bass, Scott Hicks

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 31 Critic Reviews
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26% Positive
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48% Mixed
15 Reviews
26% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 31 Critic Reviews
44
26% Positive
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48% Mixed
15 Reviews
26% Negative
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95
Scott Hicks adapts David Guterson's best-selling novel as if it was poetry.
By Christopher Brandon FULL REVIEW
67
As good as it is in many ways, the film is not as emotionally gripping as it should be, and comes off as a rather predictable liberal statement.
By William Arnold FULL REVIEW
50
Exceedingly blurred rendering of a simply told, artful novel.
By Lisa Schwarzbaum FULL REVIEW
50
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.
By Michael Wilmington FULL REVIEW
40
Impeccably crafted but dramatically dull.
By Todd McCarthy FULL REVIEW
30
The narrative chronology is so heavily hacked about, its tenses so addled and the material so thinly spread across so many characters, one can scarcely keep it straight in one's head without going cross-eyed.
By John Patterson FULL REVIEW
25
Looks exquisite, but don't bother digging deeper.
By Rene Rodriguez FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Universal Pictures, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, Soundfirm, The Artists' Colony, Ufland
Release Date Dec 22, 1999
Duration 2 h 7 m
Rating PG-13
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Tagline First loves last. Forever.
Website https://www.uphe.com/movies/snow-falling-on-cedars
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Awards

Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
Satellite Awards
• 5 Nominations
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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