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Name: The Ice Storm
Released: 1997-9-26
Cast: Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Henry Czerny, Adam Hann-Byrd, Tobey Maguire

The Ice Storm

R
1h 53m
1997

86%

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When a self-centered husband's relationship with his wife and mistress grow cold, it takes a wife-swapping "key party" and a freak ice storm to clear the air and change their lives forever. With the help of an all star cast, Academy Award Winning director, Ang Lee, offers a compelling look at a controversial era.

Director:

Ang Lee

Producer:

Ted Hope, James Schamus, Ang Lee

Writer:

James Schamus, Rick Moody

Cast:

Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Henry Czerny, Adam Hann-Byrd, Tobey Maguire, Christina Ricci, Jamey Sheridan, Elijah Wood, Sigourney Weaver

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

86%

Critics Consensus: Director Ang Lee revisits the ennui-laden decadence of 1970s suburban America with deft humor and gripping pathos.

Reviews

Tilt Magazine

Stephen Silver

In fact, just about everything sexual that happens in the film is dirty, unpleasant, unsatisfying, and led to pain and heartbreak for just about everyone involved (25th anniversary)

The Ice Storm contains a deeply human authenticity and willingness to portray, but not resolve, its characters' collective alienation.

Family life -- the real focus of The Ice Storm -- is rendered as having something like the alienating density of prison; each solitary feels enclosed in his or her own sentence and injustice.

The film's smartly told through the eyes of the children...

The key to The Ice Storm's ambiguity and unexpected depth is that the events of the story mean wholly different things to different characters -- there's no moral, just life sliced like a loaf of bread.

October 25, 2019

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