First Snow

Name: First Snow
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: March 23, 2007
Duration: 101 min
Rating: 58
Cast: Guy Pearce, Piper Perabo, William Fichtner

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Yari Film Group Releasing | Release Date: March 23, 2007 | PG-13

Starring: Guy Pearce, Piper Perabo, William Fichtner

Summary: Stranded after an accident outside a desolate town, Jimmy Starks (Pearce) visits a fortune teller (Simmons) to pass the time, but soon learns that his days are numbered. At first skeptical, Jimmy's world begins to unravel as the psychic's visions come true. (Yari Film Group)

Director: Mark Fergus

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 101 min

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Owen Gleiberman

First Snow is essentially a short story with a metaphysical twist, but Pearce puts his fears more up front than any actor I can think of. Read full review

Carrie Rickey

A haunting neo-noir about a man told by a palmist that his karma is about to run over his dogma. Read full review

Michael Wilmington

Movies like First Snow rise or fall on characters and atmosphere, and Fergus gets them both. But though the story's resolution does have irony and even a certain power, it lacks the charge, the Serlingesque "gotcha," that it needs. Read full review

Rene Rodriguez

The story falters only at the end, but it's the ride, not the destination, that you remember and savor the most. Read full review

Kamal AL-Solaylee

First Snow is, above all else, one man's particular journey. Pearce is a valid and compelling guide but he can't carry the full load of the movie's excess baggage. For the movie to completely resonate it has to strike the spiritual-angst note through his performance. Pearce comes close but no ... well, you know. Read full review

Jim Ridley

First-time director Fergus's film is more a moody, tedious anti-thriller about ineluctable fate. Read full review

Nathan Rabin

Pearce is usually dependable, but here, he's utterly unconvincing as a slick phony, and the film peddles a bogus bill of goods in kind. Read full review

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CraigP.

Apr 30, 2007

A great film about destiny and death with a wonderful performance by Guy Pearce.

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KenG

Apr 18, 2007

They pretty much could have made the same movie without the fortune-telling stuff, but this is an intriguing, claustrophobic study of a man becoming obsessed that someone is out to kill him, and the effect that this has on him.

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ChadS.

Apr 14, 2007

If Christopher Walken sees the future (as he did in "The Dead Zone"), there's going to be music; there's going to be ham. Awards aren't handed out to filmic dreck such as "Final Destination 3", or the more recent "The Number 23" (b-movie thrillers about fate and If Christopher Walken sees the future (as he did in "The Dead Zone"), there's going to be music; there's going to be ham. Awards aren't handed out to filmic dreck such as "Final Destination 3", or the more recent "The Number 23" (b-movie thrillers about fate and predestination), so when a fortune teller (J.K. Simmons) intuits destiny in the form of a dirt nap for his customer (Guy Pearce), Vacaro displays your usual convulsions which normally accompanies the discovery that a customer's allotment of time is finite and fast-approaching, but "First Snow" treats this paranormal occurence as if Jimmy was in for a routine check-up. The oncoming tragedy that's implied in the fortune teller's body language is played out in silence. We're in "the real world", a genreless diegesis, the filmmaker is saying. "First Snow" should be a road movie, or take-a-plane-to-some-country-near-the-equator-movie, but Jimmy, faced with the titular phenomena of nature, induces cabin fever instead. I don't know, sometimes dreck can be fun. "First Snow" is an existential bore (but speculating about the nature of Jimmy's narration will make for a lively post-movie discussion). Give me the cheap thrills of the underrated "Final Destination 3" instead, please.… Expand

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moviegrabbag

Jun 12, 2011

This movie was just nothing. It wasn't so bad that it was fun to make fun of but it wasn't good enough for me to actually recommend it to anybody. The acting was solid and it did a good job of building it's self up to the climax. But the issue was that by the time you get to the climax youThis movie was just nothing. It wasn't so bad that it was fun to make fun of but it wasn't good enough for me to actually recommend it to anybody. The acting was solid and it did a good job of building it's self up to the climax. But the issue was that by the time you get to the climax you just don't care. The main character just isn't likable and the rest of the cast just isn't worth caring about. If you get the chance to watch this movie for free then you might watch it but otherwise avoid it. please read a longer review of this and other movies at http://moviegrabbag.blogspot.com/… Expand

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