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Robin Williams

Holly Hunter

Giovanni Ribisi

Tim Blake Nelson

W. Earl Brown

Woody Harrelson

Alison Lohman

Marina Stephenson Kerr

Billy Merasty

Ralph Alderman

Frank Adamson

Andrea Shawcross

Ryan Miranda

Craig March

Ty Wood

Frank C. Turner

Joanne Rodriguez

Eric Epstein

Brenda McDonald

Deena Fontaine

Michael Birnbaum

Andreas Grosch

Hannah Leader

David Faigenblum

Christopher Eberts

Kia Jam

Christopher Roberts

Mark Mothersbaugh

James Glennon

Julie Monroe

Deborah Aquila

Jon Billington

Julian Ashby

John Schimmel

Stephen Arndt

Darena Snowe

Mark Mylod

Andreas Schmid

Collin Friesen

Elaine Dysinger

Sharon Harel-Cohen

Katie Kempe-Smith

Jane Barclay

Tricia Wood

Rick Skene

Lesley Oswald

Richard O'Brien-Moran

Nancy Kirhoffer

Richard B. Molina

Réjean Labrie

Wendy Harke

Lindsey Bart

Owen Bird

Remi Verfaillie

Mecca Thornhill

Will Antoniuk

Douglas Craik

Mark Cohen

Álex Martínez

Michael Marshall

Len Peterson

Daniel Quesnel

Ronald Hersey

Chris Helcermanas-Benge

Louis Marion

Louis Piché

Stan Mak

Larry Spittle

Ryan Berzuk

Alanna Mills

Doug Morrow

Cheri Minns

Katherine James

Sanna Seppanen

Jennifer Machnee

Pina Robinson

Janet Gayford

Olaf Dux

Bill Sinosich

Paul Courchaine

Michael Umble

John Mysyk

Jon Taylor

Brad Sherman

Karen Baker Landers

Chris Jargo

Craig S. Jaeger

Tony Negrete

Philip D. Morrill

Dan Hegeman

Christopher Assells

Nerses Gezalyan

James Moriana

Jeffrey Wilhoit

Christopher Moriana

Catherine Harper

April McMorris

Rick Downey

Charles Martin Inouye

***Quirky crime/dramedy with loads of black humor tries a little too hard***

The owner of a small travel agency in Alaska (Robin Williams) loves his wife with Tourette Syndrome (Holly Hunter), but he’s financially strapped and needs funds fast. After stumbling upon a frozen corpse he hatches a harebrained scheme that draws the suspicion of an obsessed insurance claims investigator (Giovanni Ribisi). Alison Lohman plays the latter’s live-in girlfriend while Woody Harrelson plays the protagonist’s wild brother. Tim Blake Nelson and W. Earl Brown are also on hand as goofy wannabe hitmen. 

“The Big White” (2005) is similar to “Fargo” (1996), but more eccentric and comedic. Imagine “A Simple Plan” (1998) or the later “Sugar Mountain” (2016) if they were oddball black comedies and you’d have a good idea.  

The cast is notable and it’s entertaining enough for what it is while attempting to balance the unsavory with the honorable, but it tries a bit too hard to be offbeat (which I suppose is better than not trying enough). Meanwhile the locations & cinematography are great, Lohman is stunning in a cute way and the score is exceptional.   

The movie runs 1 hour, 40 minutes, and was shot in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and Whitehorse, Yukon. The bulk of the outdoor sequences and cinematography were shot at summit of the White Pass along the border of Alaska and British Columbia, not far from Skagway.

GRADE: B-/C+

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