Affliction

• 14+
• 114 min
• 1997
• USA
• English
• Directed by Paul Schrader

• James Coburn,
• Willem Dafoe,
• Nick Nolte,
• Sissy Spacek

Throughout his life, Sheriff Wade Whitehouse has been cowed and brutalized by his father, a venomous alcoholic. But a child never forgets a cruelty, and two suspicious deaths in their small New Hampshire town lead inexorably to a cataclysmic confrontation between father and son.

• Drama
• Mystery
• Thriller