Affliction (1998) Cast & Crew

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Directed by Paul Schrader.

Cast

• Nick Nolte as Wade Whitehouse
• Sissy Spacek as Margie Fogg
• James Coburn as Glen Whitehouse
• Willem Dafoe as Rolfe Whitehouse
• Mary Beth Hurt as Lillian
• Jim True-Frost as Jack Hewitt
• Marian Seldes as Alma Pittman
• Holmes Osborne as Gordon LaRiviere
• Brigid Tierney as Jill
• Sean McCann as Evan Twombley
• Wayne Robson as Nick Wickham
• Eugene Lipinski as J. Battle Hand
• Tim Post as Chick Ward
• Christopher Heyerdahl as Frankie Lacoy
• Janine Theriault as Hettie Rogers
• Paul Stewart as Horner
• Sheena Larkin as Lugene Brooks
• Penny Mancuso as Woman Driver
• Danielle Desormeaux as Elaine
• Donovan Reiter as Short-haired Local
• Brawley Nolte as Young Wade
• Michael Caloz as Young Rolfe
• Joanna Noyes as Sally Whitehouse
• Marcel Jeannin as State Trooper
• Susan Almgren as Mrs. Gordon
• Steve Adams as Mel Gordon
• Martha-Marie Kleinhans as Lena
• Mark Camacho as Clyde
• Ralph Allison as Reverend Doughty
• Charles Edwin Powell as Jimmy Dane

Crew

• Paul Schrader — Director
• Linda Reisman — Producer
• Russell Banks — Novel
• Paul Sarossy — Director of Photography
• Michael Brook — Original Music Composer
• Paul Schrader — Screenplay

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