First Snow

A man desperately tries to keep a strange prediction from coming true in this independent psychological thriller. Jimmy Starks (Guy Pearce) is a traveling salesmen who is in New Mexico on business when he crosses paths with a psychic. The psychic offers to read Jimmy's fortune, and quickly informs ...more

Guy Pearce's taut, bony features and intense interior mien make the actor a natural lead in suspense thrillers. In First Snow he delivers a gripping performance of uptight muscularity in an engrossingly well-plotted if occasionally wobbly suspense drama redolent of a good bitterly ironic Stephen King short story. Pearce plays Jimmy Starks, a slick but vacant Albuquerque flooring salesman. With his preening confidence, long hair, dirty dress shirts, and sketchy dream to "make it" by unloading a ...more