Affliction

film by Schrader [1997]

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  • novel by Banks
    • Russell Banks
      In Russell Banks

      …subsequent novels included Affliction (1989; film 1997), The Sweet Hereafter (1991; film 1997), and Rule of the Bone (1995). The last of these, with its clear-sighted 14-year-old protagonist, is reminiscent of J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye. In 1998 Banks published Cloudsplitter, the fictional response of

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  • Oscar to Coburn for best supporting actor, 1998

    role of

      • Nolte
      • Spacek
        • JFK
          In Sissy Spacek

          Stone’s JFK (1991), Paul Schrader’s Affliction (1997), and David Lynch’s The Straight Story (1999).

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