The Ice Storm

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Theatrical Release Date:

09/27/1997

DVD Release Date:

03/13/2001

Run Time:

113min.

Starring:

Kevin Kline , Joan Allen , Sigourney Weaver , Tobey Maguire , Christina Ricci

Director(s):

Ang Lee

MPAA Rating:

R for sexuality and drug use, including scenes involving children, and for language.

Genre(s):

Drama

Plot: Set on Thanksgiving weekend of 1973, The Ice Storm looks into the lives of a wealthy Connecticut family who are calm and civil on the outside, but whose lives are quietly falling into chaos. Read More

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Focuses on two mildly dysfunctional, but relatively well-off financially, suburban families and their relationships between and within the families, in narcissistic America. Excellent movie worthy of ... 4 stars, but I gave it 5 stars to counteract the under-rating of another user. Full Review

July 8, 2010

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This movie left me asking "Who ARE these people?" Supposedly, an entire neighborhood of upper middle class suburbanites in the early seventies, these people , young and old, are so hopeles... sly screwed up emotionally and so totally lacking in any semblance of principles that they are completely unbelievable much less LIKABLE. On top of that the script is fraught with so many flaws....just ONE example...In one of the last scenes , a kid , who as strange as it may seem, is out playing for hours in a terrible ice storm when he gets shocked by a fallen electrical cable and is lying on the side of the highway...possibly dead or possibly just stunned...Along comes Kline ************** the kid as a neighbor and without, admisistering CPR or even checking his pulse to see if he's DEAD, simply scoops him up and takes him....not to an emergency room but HOME where he dramatically lays him at the feet of his father. The father, again witho no apparent though of dialing 911 administering CPR or even checking for a pulse simply drops on his knees and starts crying.. GIVE ME A BREAK. Again, I ask "WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE." and, more importanly, how the hell could the critics above simply overlook this movies blatant faults while apparently soul-searching for some saving graces for a bunch of morally and emotionally bankrupt characters. Full Review

September 24, 2009

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