[A number of the film""s most violent moments occur off-screen, e.g., the opening suicide, the bar-fly""s torture and killing, the car explosion, the scalding with hot coffee, Larry Gordon""s death, etc.Daniels) - but it failed to win any awards.Curiously, Burl Ives was nominated and won an Oscar in 1958 as Best Supporting Actor inThe Big Countryrather than for his performance inCat On a Hot Tin Roof."[Flashback: 17 year-old Clark argued with his father Jonathan during a car ride.He was frustrated that his adoptive parents wanted him to maintain the Kent tradition of farming the land, and he angrily rejected them: "Your family, not mine.It""s always got a face and a name.I""ve been huntin"" the bastard for 30 years, give or take.Come close a time or two.Too damn close! You can""t kill damnation, Mister.It don""t die like a man dies!"On Halloween night, Rachel and Jamie (in her clown costume) were spied upon as they eagerly left to go trick-or-treating.