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| Northfork | 
| Director: Michael Polish
Actors: James Woods, Nick Nolte, Douglas Sebern, Claire Forlani, Duel Farnes
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  86 reviews
Sales Rank: 44993
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Running Time: 103 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: D341994D
ISBN: 0792189507
UPC: 097363419945
EAN: 9780792189503
ASIN: B0000UJL82
Theatrical Release Date: 2003
Release Date: December 30, 2003
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Following their super-quirky films Twin Falls Idaho and Jackpot, the Polish brothers take a leap of faith with their third picture, Northfork. And it pays off handsomely. Somewhere in the desolate Midwest, the town of Northfork is about to be drowned in the waters held back by a new dam. It's up to a group of men (in identical black suits and fedoras) to clear out the last stubborn landowners. Meanwhile, a deathly ill boy bargains with a delegation of heaven-sent searchers--at least that's what they seem to be. Is this Fargo meets Touched by an Angel? That's the peculiar feel of this otherwise unclassifiable movie, which veers from academic artiness to wacky blackout humor. Who can explain the restaurant where diners must guess the lone menu item? And who would want to? James Woods and Nick Nolte lead a game cast through this oddly winning enterprise. --Robert Horton
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 Not for everyone October 25, 2008
Let's be realistic. Angels, floods, dark and dreary landscapes, and wacky hangers-on add up to an uneven, yet moving fantasy. This is not a movie for fun. There is a smidgen of humor sprinkled about but this movie will tap on a person's soul to be let in and if you are sensitive enough you will be touched. Just take it for what it is: the earth doesn't move, the story doesn't say a great deal about anything; it just appeals to one's basic emotions. Nick Nolte is superb as the minister, James Woods is dynamite as always and the little boy IS an angel whether you want to believe him or not.
 New Age September 8, 2008
I (unfortunately) was seduced by the jacket presentation of the DVD. Between dreams and dark reality, the film finds it difficult to take the course. Some sensitive images avoid the viewer from being engulfed by waves of fatigue.
A film truly boring and fake due to its seduction by the New Age.
 Absolutely the worst movie I have ever sat through, no exception!!! October 22, 2007
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
This movie is pointless, bizarre , inane, and totally without merit. I guess you would have to be as weird as the script writer to understand this movie. I thought I had broad tastes in movies and story lines, but this one just escaped me.......... James Woods, Nick Nolte, shame on you!
A Wonderful and Engaging Film June 17, 2007
This film has great performances, wonderful writing, beautiful cinematography, and kind of an easygoing mysticism that pervades it. Once you start watching it, you can't stop. The commentary is entertaining as well.
Northfork, Montana (1776-1955) April 20, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
A dreamy, stunningly atmospheric film takes place in a small town of Northfork, Montana in 1955. The government officials arrive to evacuate the town about to be inundated by a new hydroelctrical dam. There are the other visitors in the town, the angels from another time but they only seen by a dying boy Irvin. A local priest (Nick Nolte in a quiet heartbreaking performance) takes care of the boy. Irvin pleads with the angels to leave the place with them...
There is some unearthly quality in the film, some dignified mourning and sublime sadness when you suddenly realize the inevitable finality of everything - humans and their relationships, cities, countries, civilizations, the whole world as we know it. Death and birth have something in common - we go through them in the ultimate loneliness.
I cannot recall the film that affected me in the same way and as deeply as "Northfork" did, the film so beautiful and so tender, so quiet and so powerful, so heartbreaking and so moving. Even now, after several months since I saw it, tears come to my eyes when I only think of it.
After I saw it, I had to talk to somebody about it. I contacted a friend who had recommended the film to me and I asked, "Please tell me what I just saw?" And my friend replied with the words, "You just saw one of the greatest films of modern times. One of these days others will see the light."
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