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Northfork

We are all angels. It is what we do with our wings that separates us.

2003 · 1h 43m · PG-13 Drama, Fantasy
Directed by Michael Polish

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Overview

The year is 1955, and a great flood is coming to Northfork, Montana. A new hydroelectric dam is about to be installed in the mountains above the town, ready to submerge the valley in the name of progress. It is the charge of a six-man Evacuation Committee to relocate the townsfolk to higher ground. Most have duly departed, but a few stubborn stragglers remain – among them a priest caring for a sickly orphan, a boy whose fevered visions are leading him to believe he is a member of a roaming band of lost angels desperately searching for a way home.

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56%
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Rotten

For me, the Polish brothers marched down a road leading nowhere.

Robert Denerstein, Denver Rocky Mountain News
Fresh

A compelling juxtaposition of the poignant and the bizarre, a movie that tosses moviemaking rules into the nearest Cuisinart.

Bill Muller, Arizona Republic
Fresh

For those on its peculiar wavelength, everything fits. For those who aren't, it's a painful piece of self-impressed drivel. Either way, you'll know you've been to the movies.

Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Fresh

It's a tone poem of a movie, more visual than coherent. As such, what it's about is less important than the spell it casts.

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
Rotten

An insufferably artsy, pretentious work, the sort of picture that gives art films a bad name.

Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald

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