This critically acclaimed tragicomedy focuses on the friendship between a high-functioning autistic woman, Linda Freeman (Sigourney Weaver, pictured) and Alex Hughes (Alan Rickman, pictured), an ex-convict who is traumatised after a fatal car accident.
Alex picks up a hitch-hiker called Vivienne while driving to Winnipeg to see an old friend. She is killed when Hughes's car crashes, and he decides to seek out her mother, who lives in a remote Canadian town.
Snow Cake is a Film programme that first aired in 2006 and has been classified a 15 certificate.
