Aurora Borealis

Just recently watched this movie and did not know what to expect. I was impressed over all at how well the story line pulls you through it. The movie was well written and Josh gives a great performance along with Donald... Full review

Just recently watched this movie and did not know what to expect. I was impressed over all at how well the story line pulls you through it. The movie was well written and Josh gives a great performance along with Donald... Full review

I enjoyed the characters in this movie tremendously.Donald Sutherland is riveting as an 82-year old man with Parkinson's disease and rapidly advancing Alzheimers. I would recommend the movie for that reason alone. Oscar-winner Louise Fletcher brings great feeling and warmth... Full review

AURORA BOREALIS is a superb film by James Burke ('In Dark Places' and 'Tis a Gift to Be Simple') from a story by Brent Boyd ('The Green Room' and 'Crazy') and if this film is a sample of how these... Full review

I saw this at the West Los Angeles screening last September. Since I was feeling a little homesick for Minneapolis, I decided to take a flyer and shell out $10 to see it. My expectations weren't that high since Mr. Dawson's... Full review

The death of an influential figure can take its toll on an impressionable young person, even years after the tragedy happened. Such is the case with the aimless Duncan Shorter, a young man who has not lived up to his... Full review

Aurora Borealis The Indie film, "Aurora Borealis" directed by John C.E. Burke has created a fair and moving picture with sensitive undertones and subtle cultivation. The film tells the story of Duncan Shorter, a young twenty-something with poor work ethic,... Full review

I had never seen Joshua Jackson before. What a talent, and what a nice surprise. His is a masterful performance of a young man turning the corner from being mired in his thinking to one who awakens before our eyes.... Full review

I saw this film at the Watefront Film Festival in Saugatuck, Michigan. Directed by James Burke, the film is about unemployable Duncan Shorter (played by Joshua Jackson, making an impressive break from his usual teen and college aimed roles) who... Full review

I saw a screening of this movie last night and absolutely loved it. I went in with little to no expectations, and the film definitely delivered. The performances were subtle yet perfectly spot on, with the standouts being Joshua Jackson... Full review

This an excellent little film.....Just don't expect dramatic fireworks, and this little film will satisfy.....September 7th, 2006 "Aurora Borealis" is a quiet, nicely observed human drama that can't quite figure out how to drum up sufficient drama..... ... Full Review

And Aurora Borealis is good enough to make me want to believe it.....Aurora Borealis isn't a perfect poem....the musical merit to match its great making-of story.... ... Full Review

'Aurora Borealis' fails to shine any new light on family dramas Sutherland and Fletcher are weirdly flamboyant as the couple whose marriage is about to be claimed by the grim reaper. ... Full Review

Most successful in capturing the emotional elements of its story, the film relies on its excellent cast to balance out sketchily drawn characters and the unfortunate obviousness of its plot. He allows his older brother Jacob (Steven Pasquale), a successful, married banker with children, to use his apartment for trysts, not because of any affection for him but because Jacob leaves a $50 bill behind, and Duncan doesn't have the will to object on moral grounds. ... Full Review

AURORA BOREALIS Rated:R For movie details, please click here . Uniformly well-acted, right down to Tyler Labine as the bitter fat friend who's still on a higher rung than Duncan, and Katie Griffin in her small but vibrantly genuine turn as Jacob's fling, and crafted with a knowing respect for its people and place, Aurora Borealis earns the right to make points about love, life, death and all the rest. ... Full Review

In ``Aurora Borealis," an unremarkable comedy-drama set in Minneapolis, Joshua Jackson plays Duncan Shorter, one of those lost slackers who's not even 30 and is nursing a very trendy starter mid life crisis. ... Full Article

Plot Summary: Ever since the premature death of his father, 25-year-old Minneapolis slacker Duncan (Joshua Jackson) is content with shuffling aimlessly through life, hanging out with his lifelong friends, and ditching one dead-end job after another. ... Full Article

He's a legend and a true Hollywood survivor. Ferociously intellectual, deeply passionate and a man of conviction, Sutherland plays a man with Parkinson's in his latest film, with as much conviction as the man who would be President in the... ... Full Article

In Aurora Borealis 25 year old Duncan Shorter ( Joshua Jackson ) is a Minneapolis slacker who just got fired from his grocery store job, after being fired from, well, every other job hes ever had. ... Full Article