Guy Pearce

Piper Perabo

Steven Michael Quezada

J.K. Simmons

Nicholas Ballas

William Fichtner

David House

Julie Gawkowski

Luce Rains

Forrest Fyre

Gurudarshan

Callie Anne Morgan

Jo Ann Soto

Adriana Cordova

Adam Scott

Jackie Burroughs

Roy Costley

Portia Dawson

Cherilyn Hayres

Brian Keith Gamble

Shea Whigham

Anthony Jordan Atler

Dave Colon

Dave Mallow

Clark Sanchez

Tavia Schwartz

Rick Gonzalez

John Burton, Jr.

Sean Furst

Devorah Herbert

Bryan Furst

Eric Alan Edwards

John Papsidera

Mark Alan Duran

Tom Lassally

Ernst-August Schnieder

Jay Cassidy

Elaine O'Donnell

Hawk Ostby

Wolfgang Schamburg

Bob Yari

Patty Long

Lahly Poore

Mark Fergus

Oliver Hengst

Robyn Meisinger

Chris Miller

Dave Gare

Todd Williams

Cliff Martinez

Martin Chávez

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Thriller

First Snow

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Furst Films

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Slow, plodding film noirish drama-thriller is only worth watching for Guy Pearce who gives a great performance and can't say I was exactly bored, but the ending didn't exactly have an emotional impact. **3.25/5**

_**Existential examination of fate vs. freewill with Guy Pearce**_

A smooth-talking charismatic salesman in New Mexico (Guy Pearce) consults a psychic at a rest stop on a whim (J.K. Simmons) and becomes increasingly paranoid that his ‘fortune’ might be accurate. Piper Perabo plays his girlfriend, William Fichtner his friend at work and Shea Whigham a former best bud from childhood.

"First Snow" (2006) is a gritty, desolate exploration of freewill and fate, not to mention the struggle with guilt, paranoia and doing the right thing. It has the bleak, reverent tone of movies like “The Woodsman” (2004), “The Mothman Prophecies” (2002),” “Dark Country” (2009), “The Dry Land” (2010), “Leo” (2002) and “The Cry of the Owl” (2009). Don’t expect any overt supernaturalism, but there are hints of mysterious forces beyond human decision or activity.

Pearce is very reminiscent of Brad Pitt in this particular role while Perabo is always a pleasure. Yet the film isn’t pleasurable in any conventional sense. It’s grey and film noir-ish with a sense of desperate inevitability. You have to be in the mood for slow-burn mundaneness to appreciate it.

The movie runs 1 hour, 41 minutes, and was shot in the heart of New Mexico: Albuquerque, Bosque Farms and Moriarty.

GRADE: B-/C+

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Written by JPV852 on Mon Jul 27 2020

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