Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Best movie of this year hands down!

Redundant and unnecessary.

good film but with many flaws

This film is to autism what The Fault in Our Stars is to romance, and I hated TFIOS.I chose to watch this film because Weaver's character and I have something in common. . . but in the end, very little in common. I'm fully aware that autistic people are often too different from each other to be summed up in one character, and that people like Linda are definitely out there, but I'd hoped she would turn out to be more normal. I'm half as old as Linda is in the movie, maybe not even that, and I can do all kinds of things she can't do. I'd be fine with Alan Rickman inspecting my kitchen. . . or other things. Don't get me wrong, I have inexplicable nitpicks just like she does, but whereas she has a near-meltdown if there's a stain to clean up, I react to violations of my nitpicks with annoyance at most. The movie got the "Neat freak" part right, though. However, from what I've read, autistic people usually have more complex interests than snow and Beanie Babies. And superheroes are WAY too mainstream as a nerd passion. Bottom line: It would be nice to see more mature, well-adjusted autistics on film. Seriously, Linda is depressingly thickheaded. Okay, I won't make this whole review a comparison between myself and her. I need to give Snow Cake some credit. It's not like the film is poorly written or acted (even though Linda creeps me out.) This story has great potential in theory. The early scenes with Alex and Vivienne did a good job drawing me in, and the scenes lit in red are a sumptuous touch. Still, Alex's affair with Carrie-Ann Moss' character rubbed me the wrong way. It was like watching yourself get cheated on. I know I'm being narcissistic, but because Snow Cake had the chance to speak to me on such an intimate level, it demands to be compared to the real thing. It could have been just for me, but wasn't, so I feel sad for everyone involved, because their hearts were in the right place. If it feels like something YOU have lived through, though, I don't want to take that from you.

I just saw the movie for the second time after 3 years. I can't believe Sigourney Weaver didn't win any award for this amazing performance. She deserved an Oscar nomination for it. Alan Rickman is fantastic as well. Excellent low-key score, direction and writing.One of the things I like the most about this movie is that it's so low-key. It doesn't put the sad stuff "in your face" in a cliché sort of way, but instead the sadness is usually underneath. Sigourney's character is happy in the most unlikely circumstances - which is the exact opposite of what you would except from a movie like this - yet it doesn't affect the sadness itself. Excellent work.Don't forget to check out the deleted scenes - most of them are excellent and it's a shame they had to delete them from the final cut.

From director Marc Evans (My Little Eye), this mix of both comedic and tragic moments is a very good look at Autism, almost as effective as Rain Man. Basically Alex Hughes (Alan Rickman) is a recently released (for murder) man travelling to Winnipeg to see an old friend, and along the way he gives the annoying, but vivacious Vivienne Freeman (Emily Hampshire). He may not have wanted to at first, and just when he warms to her eccentric nature, the vehicle is in a serious automobile accident, killing Vivienne. After talking to the police, he sees the address of Vivienne's mother, and decides to speak to her. After a difficult meeting with the mother Linda (Sigourney Weaver), he afterwards talks to neighbour Maggie (Carrie-Anne Moss), who explains to him that she has autism. Linda wants him to stay till after the funeral, the day the garbage is collected, and he agrees. In the days leading up to it, Alex makes a partner with Maggie and a few other friends, and learning more about Linda's uniqueness he also finds himself letting out past demons, such as his son's death and the man he killed. The moments that really get to you are the Scrabble game with made up words and an example of their use, and of course, the end, when Alex leaves Linda a cake made of snow (because she likes to eat it, and has no temperature sense), and it is Maggie that takes the garbage out for her. Also starring James Allodi as Clyde, Janet Van De Graaf as Meryl, Julie Stewart as Florence, Selina Cadell as Diane Wooton, Callum Keith Rennie as John Neil and David Fox as Dirk Freeman. I can have some understanding of the character of Linda (not in exactly the same way), because I myself have a form of Autism called Asperger's Syndrome. Weaver is very compelling, Rickman makes the most of his self-grieving character, and the support from Moss and the brief Hampshire are good too, a good tragicomedy. Very good!

Let's be clear. This movie is terrible. It's a bad student film with a bigger budget. I would rather watch Jesus Christ the Musical sixty times than sit through this again.I should preface this review by saying that I adore Alan Rickman. Among actors, he is god. He is the sexiest guy that ever walked the boards. But Alan, not even you can save this dreck.The thing is, it's not just a film. It's a Film. With a Message. And the message is? Everyman (that's Alan) can learn to accept autistics as long as he has the root next door. Or something.I understand that the screenwriter based a lot of Sigourney's character on her own autistic son. Let this be a lesson for screenwriters everywhere: don't do family. It will suck.Specific objections. The daughter, who I'm sure was written to be zany and adorable, was in reality just irritating. The man looking for redemption and finding himself is old. The man sleeping with somebody and (ok, this might be construed a spoiler, but by the time it happens you'll be so over the movie that you'll be glad I rescued you) thinking that she is a prostitute and therefore handing her cash has also been done to death. The woman in question not being mightily offended and throwing him out has not. There is a reason for this.Finally, there is a terrible, terrible redemption scene, which made me vomit a little. How can I describe it without giving anything away ... say you had a pet dog, and a complete stranger was out walking your dog, and at some point in the journey he walked your dog under a bus.The bus driver turns up at your house, and THE GUY WHO WAS WALKING THE DOG FORGIVES HIM! 1/10, and that one point is only because I like opening scenes in aeroplanes.