Northfork

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

Aug 1 2003 PG-13 1h 43m
Drama, Fantasy

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 responsibility 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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Plot

In a near-empty Northfork orphanage, Father Harlan gently tends to Irwin, an eight-year-old who lies between a dream state and death. As orphanage caretaker Harlan reads aloud about Northfork's years-ago forced evacuation to make way for a hydro-electric dam, Irwin's imagination takes flight. While a team of six men evacuate the last remaining citizens of the town, Irwin, too, invents a cast of characters to prepare himself for his own evacuation. (the above states the caretaker - who is actually the priest - is reading about a years-ago evacuation. In the movie, the evacuation is taking place as the boy lays dying!)

Written by

Mark Polish, Michael Polish

Directed by

Michael Polish

Cast

Duel Farnes, Nick Nolte, Anthony Edwards

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Prohibition Pictures, Paramount Vantage, Romano Shane Productions, Departure Entertainment, Departure Studios, Polish Brothers Construction, Northfork Productions

Languages

English

Awards

3 wins & 3 nominations

Trailers
Northfork - Trailer
Scores
# of Votes
5,708
Average Rating
6.2 out of 10
Metascore
64
Popularity
NA