First Snow (2006 film)

First Snow
First Snow
	Promotional poster
Directed by	Mark Fergus
Written by	Mark Fergus; Hawk Ostby
Produced by	Bob Yari; Sean Furst; Tom Lassally
Starring	Guy Pearce; Piper Perabo
Cinematography	Eric Edwards
Edited by	Jay Cassidy
Music by	Cliff Martinez
Distributed by	Freestyle Releasing
Release dates	May 5, 2006 (Tribeca Film Festival); March 23, 2007 (United States);
Running time	101 minutes
Language	English
Budget	$8,000,000 (estimated)
Box office	$573,864

First Snow is a 2006 thriller starring Guy Pearce and directed by Mark Fergus. The film was released on March 23, 2007.

Plot

Slick salesman Jimmy Starks (Pearce) has auto problems in a small New Mexico town and while his car is in the shop he visits low-rent fortune teller Vacaro (J.K. Simmons) to pass the time. The supposed seer tells him he will have good fortune soon, but looking deeper relates the information that his future is blank, and he is safe only until the first snow of winter beyond which there is no future to foretell. The act upsets Jimmy and rekindles old transgressions and makes him feel he is on a collision course with destiny especially when an old friend Vincent (Shea Whigham) returns from a jail sentence that was longer because Jimmy "sold him out." Jimmy becomes obsessed with knowing more of his future and re-visits Vacaro but the old man can only tell the salesman that he has related to him all he can see. Jimmy feels that Vincent has returned to kill him and that he must do something to change the course of his future but Vacaro convinces him to accept his fate.

One theme referenced in the film (by the radio announcer) is the idea of the Sword of Damocles.

Cast

Guy Pearce as Jimmy Starks
Piper Perabo as Dierdre
J. K. Simmons as Vacaro
William Fichtner as Ed
Rick Gonzalez as Andy Lopez
Shea Whigham as Vincent
Jackie Burroughs as Maggie
Adam Scott as Tom Morelane
Portia Dawson as Tavern Waitress Marci
Luce Rains as Roy Harrison
Dave Mallow (voice, uncredited) as Radio Announcer

Critical reception

As of July 2022^[update], the film holds a 58% approval rating on aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 74 reviews with an average rating of 5.9/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "In First Snow, an interesting premise gives way to a slow and tedious noir that adds little to the genre."^[1]

Home media

First Snow was released on Blu-ray in Italy on 6 July 2010, France 1 April 2011 and in the United States 16 June 2020.

References

^ "First Snow (2007)". Retrieved 3 June 2020 – via www.rottentomatoes.com.

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[1] "First Snow (2007)". Retrieved 3 June 2020 – via www.rottentomatoes.com.

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