Positives: The acting was very good. The locations feel real to the story. It does draw your interest, if not just for the performances.Negatives: Terribly photographed, to the point of being dizzy from the shaky cam operator, that must have been hired in the parking lot of a Wal*Mart, somewhere, USA.Terribly directed. You have a waitress mom separated from her husband who works with one of her best friends, whose husband she is sleeping with. Even after the cat is out of the bag, the adulterer is staying at the waitress mom's house, and her friend and the mom are either in scenes where they hate each other, or love each other. I think the friendship may have been over at that point....Ya think?? The mom's daughter goes missing because mom falls asleep on the couch when she is supposed to be attending to her daughter. Instead of combing the woods, the distraught mom is sitting in her house with a Police woman, while the entire town is out looking for her daughter. So dumb, I almost threw something at the screen. What physically fit, young loving mom wouldn't be out there looking for her child? That is just two examples of the illogical path this film goes down, unfortunately there are many more of them. There is no logic at all to many of the well acted scenes. That's what this movie is: A depressing well acted stupid movie, that could have worked, if the director would have read the novel objectively, before he wrote this mess of a script.Bottom line: If you like the actors, enjoy depressing films with few likable characters, and you want to see them do really nice scenes that make no sense.......Watch this movie, however, don't expect any satisfaction from the ending.

A sad and a hard movie. And the full extent of its heaviness you will realize not during the watching, but after that. A heart heaviness doesn't leave fast enough. This film is mainly about human or family relationships, about giving another a chance to be forgiven, the ability to ask for forgiveness. About a bunch of things that come up from the relations between people. And those items we call 'life'. Sam Rockwell (my applause) and Kate Beckinsale did amazing performances (maybe the best roles too) and at their best, revealing a many-sided personality of the characters. Playing a his character Rockwell shows us his great acting talent and being a master of many-sided personality.

"It's easy for...for us to block out the things that upset us. That's what I do. That's what most people do. But it's important that you feel through this." Hmmm. Ah...well. Where to begin with this one?I had high hopes for Snow Angels. I'm a fan of Sam Rockwell, Olivia Thirlby, and Kate Beckinsale, and was looking forward to seeing them all in an indie drama that seemed promising from all the reviews I've read. Needless to say, my expectations were not met.Snow Angels had an odd way of becoming less interesting and more muddled as it went along. It's like the writer became less certain of what he wanted to do and the story's message as the movie progressed. The beginning was promising, but by the the time the film meandered to its close, I was thoroughly confused about what the point was of all the interconnected characters and their actions.I quite enjoy "different" movies, as a rule, but Snow Angels did little for me. None of the performances were noteworthy enough to overcome a story that seemed to lack a central theme after it reaches an emotional highpoint near the middle of the movie. This one left me scratching my head, and not in a good way.

The end of two marriages and some of the consequences that comes after with two different couples, two different families and with two different results intersect in the story of "Snow Angels". The Marchand family and The Parkinson family are under some heavy changes and we're gonna see how they're gonna deal with it, if they're gonna act as desperate to make things right again or if they're really trying to do something good or positive of it or not. Arthur (Michael Angarano) as many other teenagers is confused with many issues, and is conflicted with the recent separation of his parents. Even worst that now his dad (Griffin Dunne) is already going out with another women. Arthur works in a restaurant along with Annie (Kate Beckinsale) who were his babysitter when he was younger and he had crush on her (sill has) but he doesn't move it along to a romantic level because she's a little older for him and she recently ended a relationship with Glenn (Sam Rockwell), a unpredictable and irresponsible man but also the father of their daughter. Glenn is trying to make things different now. He finds a temporary job, he's more religious, among other things and he wants to get back to Annie but she's already seeing someone, Nate (Nicky Katt) her best friend's husband. Again, love relationships go back and forth here, few right beginnings and too many sad endings. But we have the beautiful relationship between Arthur and Lila (Olivia Thirlby); she tries hard to show to him that she likes him, but he thinks she likes him as a friend, but when they talk to each other and understand how things work, things start to get it right. By the way I think that "awkward and funny" conversations between the two was one of the most realistic things I've ever seen in terms of films. In the drama is settled right in the beginning that something tragical is going to happen, we're not sure why or what, and the interesting is that when we finally are enjoying the story, seeing the problems of the characters we almost forget this fact. Writer and director David Gordon Green divided the story in a interesting way. A subtle and calm presentation of characters and their lives, then one big event that shocks everyone, and the dramatic result of that event. Annie and Glenn little daughter disappearance is this event, and then she is found dead by Arhtur and his friend. I was surprised with this fact first because the story didn't follow this path, after all, besides the problems between the former couple they are dedicated fathers in their ways; and second, something happened to the girl and here in this movie I wasn't expecting possible answers for what happened, it seemed so right on the line, direct, with no false clues (things that usually occurs in many other films).After watching Green's "Undertow" (great film about a journey and what happens in it) and this one I can truly say that the director really knows how to make a simple movie interesting, worth watching despite its downer themes, yet he can put some questions and he doesn't force anyone to want answers, they will come naturally as soon as you watch the films and pay attention to details in it or details in life. Sam Rockwell in the role of Glenn has one of the most interesting performances of the movie. I think he's got the most down to earth role of his career, as a loser character who always tries to change things, but he can't for some strange reasons, his changes always takes him to a dangerous way, even fighting with Nate and Annie, or getting drunk. His reactions in the end were shocking yet real in some ways. I really wasn't expecting that. As a warning I say to you that this a matter of discussion for many viewers and many of them disliked the movie because of that. But who cares? Watch it and see it for yourself and think about it. 10/10