Affliction

Drama • R • Directed by: Paul Schrader • 109 minutes

Wade Whitehouse is small-town sheriff and heavy drinker, accused of achieving nothing by his ex-wife and daughter - although his girlfriend, Margie, accepts him the way he is. On the first day of the hunting season, Wade's friend Jack takes a wealthy businessman to hunt - and only Jack returns alive. Despite Jack’s claims that this was an accidental self-inflicted shot, Wade decides to play detective and starts to investigate the case…