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Northfork (2003)  link to Northfork on IMDb  link to trailer on IMDb

Number: 126

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IMDb Rating:
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6.4/10 (4882 votes)

Country: USA, 103 minutes

Spoken Languages: English, Polish

Genre(s): Drama, Fantasy

Director(s): Michael Polish

Cast: James Woods (as Walter O'Brien), Nick Nolte (as Father Harlan), Douglas Sebern (as Mayor), Claire Forlani (as Mrs. Hadfield), Duel Farnes (as Irwin)

Medium: Unknown,

Storyline: 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!)

Location: E3

Loaned: No

Aspect ratio: 2.35:1