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Snow Cake

Marc Evan's mawkish soap opera
By PETER KEOUGH  |  May 29, 2007
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It was thought that the Academy might consider one of the performances in Marc Evan’s mawkish and contrived soap opera for a nomination: Sigourney Weaver as the autistic Linda. But her turn is an embarrassing one, more like Boris Karloff as Frankenstein’s creation than Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man. The real Oscar candidate here is Alan Rickman as a restrained and sardonic stranger with a mystery past. Then again, Alex might just be Rickman’s rueful response to the hokum he has to work with. For some reason, Alex is driving cross-country to Winnipeg when a talky teen hitchhiker gets him to give her a lift. A semi blindsides the car, the girl dies, and he feels compelled to visit her mentally challenged mom to pay his respects because, you see, he . . . But we’ve already got too much manipulative nonsense going on, not the least of which is Weaver’s infantile gooing at snowflakes and shiny objects and her preternatural wisdom on the trampoline when she says, “We all have to get over it! Now, bounce me!”
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