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Director Ang Lee's main concern is a subtle examination of family life that he began with THE WEDDING BANQUET and EAT DRINK MAN WOMAN. With THE ICE STORM, Lee creates a truly American period film that is equally concerned with family relationships, set in 1970s New England. It is Thanksgiving, 1973, and the Carvers and the Hoods are two prototypical suburban families seemingly living the good life in New Canaan, Connecticut. Behind their New Age philosophies and polyester fashions, however, lies deep discontent. One husband carries on an unsatisfying affair with the other family's wife, while his teenage daughter experiments sexually with both of the neighbor's boys. When a winter storm descends upon their upper middle class neighborhood, buried resentments bubble over, leading to a tragedy neither family will ever forget. <br> <br> An intense, well-acted drama based on the novel by Rick Moody, THE ICE STORM is a masterly depiction of the frigid emotional life of suburbia. Great care was taken to accur...

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Cast: Joan Allen, Tobey Maguire, Sigourney Weaver, Katie Holmes, Henry Czerny, Christina Ricci, Kevin Kline, Jamey Sheridan, Elijah Wood
Director: Ang Lee
Genre: Drama
Release Date: October 31, 1997
MPAA Rating: R
DVD Release Date: March 13, 2001
Runtime: 112 minutes
Studio: 20th Century Fox

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Quick Tip by cyclone_march. October 21, 2010

posted in Movie Hype

A Quick Tip by cyclone_march

I was told by many people that I was supposed to like it and these people tend to be right ... Nope. I didn't like it. I love most of the cast, but I kept feeling like I'd seen something like it befo ... oh yea "Ordinary People." OP did it earlier and to my mind much better.

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review by KonaCat. November 01, 2008

Behind closed doors

Two neighboring families experience a long and ultimately life-changing Thanksgiving weekend. The story moves from one house to the other where the adults are all bored with their spouses (but not with their neighbor's spouse) and the kids are restless and curious about sex. Everyone feels misunderstood and a big ice storm is coming. This adult drama is full of outstanding performances: Kevin Kline and a luminously lovely Joan Allen play husband and wife who are both filled … more

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review by SusiDee34. September 04, 2008

posted in Movie Hype

Ice Storm - 1997

Pros: entire cast, cinematography Cons: .. The Bottom Line: "Oh, life's a work of fiction Wistful wind of a train Find security in addiction Lost in gardens insane" ~ Beau If you want a glimpse of what a dysfunctional family looks like, then Ice Storm is the movie for you. It begins at the end, with Paul Hood sitting on a train, frozen in time by an ice storm. We then travel back, to find out … more

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