Affliction

I really liked this film because the story is somewhat interesting, and the acting is rediculous. Coburn has an incredible performance and deserved his Oscar and Nolte deserved his nomination. I believe that William Defoe deserves a lot of credit for... Full review

Nick Nolte does a great job carrying a huge portion of the story. There are many minor plots involved in this movie that leads up to a bit of a disappointing ending. There was alot of dark family secrets to this... Full review

This movie is not about Nick Nolte as a cop. It a movie about a man trying as hard as he can to not become the person he loves and detest equally, his father. "Affliction" portrays and grasps the true essence... Full review

Especcialy near the end. The movie is about abussive fathers, get it? They are an affliction? Nolte plays a lousy cop and lousy father. He is investigating a possible murder, possible accident. Not a lot happens, but its still gripping, and... Full review

I would rather double my child support payment than sit through this f*@king movie. I am 28 years old and I am a movie junkie. I have never walked out of a movie until this one. I went to the front... Full review

Nick Nolte plays a law enforcement figure in a remote New Hampshire town, battling the social ills of his AFFLICTION and quietly losing his sanity, in one of the dreariest films of all time. As attested to by the universal praise... Full review

At least, despite Schraders religious grandiosity, Affliction (unlike so many Hollywood films) isnt a story of redemption. Theres something both impressive and tedious about watching this doomed hulk of a man suffering, like many Paul Schrader characters before him, up on a cross. ... Full Review

This one was adapted to the screen by Paul Schrader who did the screenplay to one of the greatest films of all time,....It is a bleak bleak bleak movie to be sure, but definetly worth watching for some great acting..... ... Full Review

As much as I wanted to like Affliction , I found its narration by Willem Defoe (Wade's brother, whom we meet late in the film) to be off-putting and, at times, insulting. He is adrift in his life, trying but consistently failing to be a good father to Jill (Brigid Tierney, in a great performance). ... Full Review

Brigid Tierney, playing Wade's daughter, is the epitome of shrill-an effective performance in all the wrong ways (you may just route for Wade to hit her).....Climate here is the mirror image of the characters' emotional nightmares..... ... Full Review

the other, more elegant movie....'s not a pretty picture....But Nolte is very convincing....And the story is so overwhelmingly depressing....Spacek is terrific.... ... Full Review

Paul Schrader Heads into the Bleak Territory of Russel BanksMarch 8, 1999Last Friday night I saw "Affliction" which has Nick Nolte and James Coburn nominated for Academy Awards. ... Full Article

Countries around the world observe Father's Day on varying dates. But in most countries, including the United States, this occasion is officially recognized on the third Sunday of June. ... Full Article

Nolte's towering, Oscar-nominated performance as embittered small-town cop Wade Whitehouse in Affliction is the best reason to endure Paul Schrader's latest tortured exploration of tragic machismo. ... Full Article

There are flicks you check out hoping for a rip-roaring story, one that will sweep you away and make you forget your own boring, miserable life for a while -- popcorn flicks you come to wanting nothing more than a... ... Full Article

Wednesday December 30, 1998 Novelist Russell Banks, filmmaker Paul Schrader and small-town New England cop Wade Whitehouse are soul mates in a tortured hell on Earth. ... Full Article

Ten To Cheer Affliction Paul Schrader 's tough-skinned, queasy version of the Russell Banks novel opens the wound of the American family once more, and with an unsharpened blade. ... Full Article