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  • Actors: Peter Coyote, Anthony Edwards, Daryl Hannah, Kyle MacLachlan, Nick Nolte
  • Directors: Mark Polish, Michael Polish
  • Format: PAL, Widescreen
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Metrodome Distribution
  • DVD Release Date: 6 Sep 2004
  • Run Time: 99 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0002ISGSS
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 29,421 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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The Polish Brothers conclude their America's Heartland trilogy (TWIN FALLS IDAHO, JACKPOT) with this mesmerizing, surreal drama. It is 1950s Montana, and in two days the small town of Northfork is about to be buried underwater. While most of the residents are willing to accept a forced relocation to higher ground, several inhabitants are determined to stay right where they are. A six-man Evacuation Committee--including father-and-son team Walter and Willis O'Brien (James Woods and Mark Polish)--is recruited to convert the stragglers and make sure that no one is left behind. Meanwhile, the somber Father Harlan (Nick Nolte) cares for the increasingly ill Irwin (Duel Farnes), a young child who has begun to have a dialogue with four mysterious angels--Flower Hercules (Darryl Hannah), Cup of Tea (Robin Sachs), Happy (Anthony Edwards), and Cod (Ben Foster). As the deadline nears, the Evacuation Committee struggles with a determined, proud group of residents who don't want to let their town be washed into history. All the while, Irwin continues to have his puzzling visions, adding a literal dose of mortality to the film's already bleak atmosphere. Featuring gorgeously haunting visuals (courtesy of cinematographer M. David Mullen), NORTHFORK confirms the Polish Brothers' status as truly distinct voices in American cinema.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Floody hell, 30 Jan 2007
By Tony Floyd "Travis Pickle" (UK) - See all my reviews
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1950s America. The isolated community of Northfork is about to be flooded as it lies in the the path of a new dam. Many residents are reluctant to leave their homes even though they will be under 60 feet of water in several days time. James Woods is one of a group of black clad government agents who have to persuade the reluctant inhabitants to move out. Cue encounters with local crazies who have various bizarre ways of dealing with the impending deluge, from one religious fanatic who has built an ark so he can ride out the flood with his two wives to the aged gentleman who has nailed his feet to the porch of his house to prevent himself from being forcibly ejected.

One apparently deserted house shelters a group of eccentric angels who are looking for an `unknown' angel to allow them to move on. A young orphan boy, tended by craggy priest Nick Nolte in the town's deserted hospital, seems to be this angel as indicated by the scars on his head and back that suggest he used to have a halo and wings. In his feverish imagination the boy is guided to the angel's house by an unusual dog creature but the angels initially fail to recognise that he is the one that they are seeking.

This stylised art-house indie piece from the confusingly named American indie film-makers the Polish Brothers sounds intriguing, doesn't it. But its mix of mordant humour and metaphysical rumination doesn't quite gell. Perhaps mistakenly, one expects a stronger and more dramatic ending: we never discover whether the ark actually copes with the flooding of the valley, for example.

The pace is slow and the narrative is elementary but even so it is also occasionally obscure. The film looks great, however. Although filmed on colour stock, the dominant hue is grey, of which at least ten different shades were used, evidently the best way to render the bleak and barren landscape of its Montana setting, which is beautifully captured. Still, in spite of the lovely wintry look, the surreal imagery and droll situations, Northfork just falls short of being a great film because of its ultimate inability to weave its two worlds together into a satisfactory whole.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Utterly Bizarre, 12 Feb 2009
By Simon D. Jones "mavmaramis" (Somerset) - See all my reviews
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Basic premise: Dam is built which is about to flood the town of Northfork. Everyone is evacuated except for the "die hards". In come a group attempting to evacuate the remainder - attempt to persuade them to leave.

Well it sounded interesting enough on the back of the DVD box so I rented it.

A more bizarre film populated with the weirdest characters I haven't seen.

And the pace - it was just so turgidly slow. If it was supposed to be languid it wasn't, it was terminal. An hour and 20 minutes I watched in silence as more and more strange, and frankly inexplicable things happened in front of me.

To be honest after that point I just got bored....it was just so slow.

The washed out colour, the strange soundtrack with it's languid and slow orchestral pieces mixed with radio jazz from the 40s.

And the characters...I keep coming back to these strange characters...the "Cup of Tea" character living in a house with a very near sighted...well I didn't know what to make of him, some sort of robot perhaps...with interchangeable hands...and strange guy with a suitcase and a lady with a wig.

It was all so...well bizarre...I couldn't make heads or tails of it...and normally I'm the kind of guy who enjoys mystery and unusual characters.

The DVD also said "A cross between Twin Peaks and Six Feet Under" - well if you couldn't get to grips with Twin Peaks then avoid this film.

In one sequence, the boy runs from a swing to a house after seeing some strange creature on stilts...the creature reminded me of one seen in Jim Henson's "The Dark Crystal" I honestly couldn't take any more after and hour and 20 minutes...perhaps I should have tried to stick it until the end but an hour and twenty minutes seemed like an eternity and I gave up.

Two stars - might have been 3 if cinematography had been better, desolate landscape notwithstanding.
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