Affliction (film)
 Affliction is an American drama film produced in 1997 written and directed by Paul Schrader from the novel by Russell Banks. It stars Nick Nolte Sissy Spacek James Coburn and Willem Dafoe.Affliction tells the story of Wade Whitehouse a small-town policeman in New Hampshire. Detached from the people around him including a dominating father and a divorced wife he becomes obsessed with the solving of a fatal hunting accident leading to a series of tragic events.