The Ice Storm (1997) - Quotes

Reflections on Personal Choices and Consequences

Partial cast: [[w:Allison Janney|Allison Janney] ] - Dot Halford

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Reflections on Family and Disconnection

Partial cast: [[w:Jonathan Freeman (actor)|Jonathan Freeman] ] - Ted Franklin

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Reflections on Faith and Doubt

Partial cast: [[w:Michael Cumpsty|Michael Cumpsty] ] - Reverend Philip Edwards

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Reflection on Disconnection and Desire

Partial cast: [[w:Katie Holmes|Katie Holmes] ] - Libbets Casey

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Reflections on Family and Disconnection

Partial cast: [[w:David Krumholtz|David Krumholtz] ] - Francis Davenport

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Reflections on Family and Relationships

Partial cast: [[w:Adam Hann-Byrd|Adam Hann-Byrd] ] - Sandy Carver

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Mikey Carver's Perspective on Life

Partial cast: [[Elijah Wood] ] - Mikey Carver

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Navigating the complexities of family dynamics

Partial cast: [[w:Christina Ricci|Christina Ricci] ] - Wendy Hood

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Reflections on Family and Connection

Partial cast: [[Tobey Maguire] ] - Paul Hood

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Reflections on Disconnection and Family Dynamics

Partial cast: [[w:Henry Czerny|Henry Czerny] ] - George Clair

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Exploring Identity and Connection in The Ice Storm

Partial cast: [[Sigourney Weaver] ] - Janey Carver

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Reflections on family and personal choices

Partial cast: [[w:Joan Allen|Joan Allen] ] - Elena Hood

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Reflections on family and disconnection

Partial cast: [[Kevin Kline] ] - Ben Hood

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Reflecting on 1973's Changing Climate

Taglines: It was 1973, and the climate was changing.

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The End of the American Dream

Taglines: The American Dream was over. But the hangover was just beginning.

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Suspicion and Observation in Relationships

Ben Hood: [Janey hands drink to Ben] Thanks. You having one?

Janey Carver: In a bit.

Ben Hood: [he leans his head onto Janey; he starts unbuttoning his shirt; he takes his shirt off] You know, I think Elena might suspect something. Maybe, it's all for the better, you know? Yesterday at dinner, she - Well, she didn't say anything. Has she acted funny to you? Have you noticed anything?

Janey Carver: Have I noticed anything?

Ben Hood: Mmm.

Janey Carver: I'm not married to her, Benjamin. You are. I think you've probably a better vantage point from which to observe her.

Ben Hood: Yeah, but... I've been working a lot lately and - No, that's not it. I... I guess maybe we're just on the verge of... saying something. Saying something to each other. On the verge.

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A Cold Exchange Between Family Members

Sandy Carver: Where are you going?

Mikey Carver: Out.

Sandy Carver: Its freezing!

Mikey Carver: Yeah

Sandy Carver: Then why are you going?

Mikey Carver: When it's freezing...because it means the molecules aren't moving, so when you breath, there's nothing in the air, you know, you breathe into your body, the molecules have stopped, it's clean.

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Conflict Between Ideals and Personal Choices

Paul Hood: I've been thinking, Francis. You are one drug-addled, elitist freak. And when the revolution comes I do not want to be lined up with you and shot because you're fucking ripe for political reeducation. You know, like in the fields.

Francis Davenport: Let me enlighten you about something here. You and I exist on opposite sides of a great existential divide, that being your pathetic virginity on the one hand and my astonishing number of sexual conquests on the other. You're simply jealous.

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Finding Connection in Books and People

Philip Edwards: Perhaps you find in books what I try to find in people.

Elena Hood: That sounds vaguely like an insult.

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Comfort and Understanding in Relationships

Philip Edwards: Sometimes the shepherd needs the comfort of the sheep.

Elena Hood: I'm going to try hard not to understand the implications of that.

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Frustration with Golf and Competition

Ben Hood: We were golfing. You know, golfing, to me, is something I'm supposed to enjoy. And I was on the goddamn golf team in college, so it's something one would assume I'd do well. I used to do well. But basically, these days, golfing for me is like hoeing... or plowing. It's like farming. And George Clair has obviously, in the mere two years since he's been with the firm, he's obviously been taking secret lessons with a golf pro. And I bet the entirety of his disposable income has been dedicated to humiliating me on the golf course. That guy talks nonstop throughout the entirety of the misery of the miserable 18 holes...

Janey Carver: Ben.

Ben Hood: On topics that are the supposed domain of my department.

Janey Carver: Ben.

Ben Hood: Yeah?

Janey Carver: You're boring me. I have a husband. I don't particularly feel the need for another.

Ben Hood: You have a point there. That's a very good point. We're having an affair. Right. An explicitly sexual relationship. Your needs, my needs. You're absolutely right.

Janey Carver: You better get dressed. The boys will be home soon.

Ben Hood: Gotcha.

Thanksgiving Reflections Amidst Social Awareness

Wendy Hood: [[w:Manifest Destiny|kill all the Indians and steal their tribal lands; [w:Napalm|napalmed] Dear Lord, thank you for this Thanksgiving holiday. And for all the material possessions we have and enjoy. And for letting us white people ]. And stuff ourselves like pigs, even though children in Asia are being ].

Ben Hood: Jesus! Enough, alright? Paul… roll?

The Connection Between Smell and Molecules

Mikey Carver: Because of molecules we are connected to the outside world from our bodies. Like when you smell things, because when you smell a smell it's not really a smell, it's a part of the object that has come off of it, molecules. So when you smell something bad, it's like in a way you're eating it. This is why you should not really smell things, in the same way that you don't eat everything in the world around you because as a smell, it gets inside of you. So the next time you go into the bathroom after someone else has been there, remember what kinds of molecules you are in fact eating.

Sharing Secrets and Vulnerabilities

Wendy Hood: I'll show you mine if you show me yours.

Reflections on Mikey's Disconnection from Reality

Janey Carver: Mikey's been out of it since the day he was born.

Navigating Life's Transitions and Existential Reflections

Paul Hood: [voiceover] When you think about it, it's not easy to keep from just wandering out of life. It's like someone's always leaving the door open to the next world, and if you aren't paying attention you could just walk through it, and then you've died. That's why in your dreams it's like you're standing in that doorway... and the dying people and the newborn people pass by you... and brush up against you as they come in and out of the world during the night. You get spun around, and in the morning... it takes a while to find your way back into the world.

Exploring the Concept of the Negative Zone

Paul Hood: [voiceover] To find yourself in the negative zone, as the Fantastic Four often do, means all every day assumptions are inverted. Even the invisible girl herself becomes visible and so she loses the last semblance of her power. It seems to me that everyone exists partially on a negative zone level, some people more than others. In your life, it's kind of like you dip in and out of it, a place where things don't quite work out the way they should. But for some people, the negative zone tempts them. And they end up going in, going in all the way.

The Paradox of Family and Power

Paul Hood: [voiceover] In issue 141 of the Fantastic Four, published in November, 1973, Reed Richards had to use his anti-matter weapon on his own son, who Aannihilus has turn into the Human Atom Bomb. It was a typical predicament for the Fantastic Four, because they weren't like other superheroes. They were more like a family. And the more power they had, the more harm they could do to each other without even knowing it. That was the meaning of the Fantastic Four: that a family is like your own personal anti-matter. Your family is the void you emerge from, and the place you return to when you die. And that's the paradox - the closer you're drawn back in, the deeper into the void you go.

The Joy of Holiday Family Dynamics

Ben Hood: Well, that's the whole point of the holidays, Paul. So you and your sister can mope around the house, and your mother and I can wait on your hand and foot, while the two of you occasionally grunt for more food from behind the hair in your faces. Believe it or not, we actually enjoy it.

Advice on Self-Abuse in Everyday Life

Ben Hood: [to Paul] On the self-abuse front - and this is important - I don't think it's advisable to do it in the shower. It wastes water and electricity and because we all expect you to be doing it there in any case. And, not on... under the linen... Well... Anyway, if you're worried about anything at all, just feel free to ask and we'll look it up.