"With Snow Falling on Cedars, Academy Award-nominated director Scott Hicks (Shine) brings David Guterson's bestselling novel to the screen - a deeply haunting mystery and a heartbreaking tale of passion, justice, and the accidents that rule every corner of the universe."--BOOK JACKET.

"Set in the Pacific Northwest a few years after the end of World War II, the story follows Ishmael Chambers (Ethan Hawke), a journalist reporting on the trial of a Japanese-American accused of murdering a local fisherman.

The trial forces the entire village to face the shame of sending their Japanese-American neighbors to internment camps following the bombing of Pearl Harbor and becomes the turning point for the honorable but wounded Ishmael to free himself from his obsessive passion for his childhood love, the Japanese-American woman now married to the accused."--BOOK JACKET.

"Included in this book are the complete shooting script, commentaries by director Scott Hicks and producer Kathleen Kennedy about turning the beloved book into a movie, dozens of stills from the film, archival photographs from the 1940s that were used for research for the film, movie poster art, biographies of the cast and crew, and complete credits of cast and crew."--BOOK JACKET.