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| Directed by | Mark Fergus |
| Produced by | Bob Yari Sean Furst Tom Lassally |
| Written by | Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby |
| Starring | Guy Pearce Piper Perabo |
| Editing by | Jay Cassidy |
| Distributed by | Freestyle Releasing |
| Release date(s) | Tribeca Film Festival May 5, 2006 United States March 23, 2007 |
| Language | English |
First Snow is a 2006 thriller starring Guy Pearce and directed by Mark Fergus. The film was released on March 23, 2007.
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Jimmy Starks (Pearce) is a smooth-talking salesman certain he’s on the verge of a big break, but when his car stalls in the middle of nowhere, a soothsayer named Vacaro (J.K. Simmons) turns his world upside down.
Slick salesman Jimmy Starks (Guy Pearce) has auto problems in a small New Mexico town and while his car is in the shop he visits low-rent fortune teller Vacaro (J.K. Simmons) to pass the time. The supposed seer tells him he will have good fortune soon, but looking deeper relates the information that his future is blank, and he is safe only until the first snow of winter beyond which there is no future to foretell. The act upsets Jimmy and rekindles old transgressions and makes him feel he is on a collision course with destiny especially when an old friend Vincent (Shea Whigham) returns from a jail sentence that he went to in Jimmy's place after a bad business deal. Jimmy becomes obsessed with knowing more of his future and re-visits Vacaro but the old man can only tell the salesman that he has related to him all he can see. Jimmy feels that Vincent has returned to kill him and that he must do something to change the course of his future but Vacaro convinces him to accept his fate.
The film currently holds 57% rating on review aggregator website rotten tomatoes.