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The Ice Storm
Directed by
Ang Lee
1997
1h 52m
R
Drama
7.3
86%
82%
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In suburban New Canaan, Connecticut, 1973, middle-class families experimenting with casual sex and substance abuse find their lives beyond their control.
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Cast of The Ice Storm
Kevin Kline
Ben Hood
Joan Allen
Elena Hood
Sigourney Weaver
Janey Carver
Jamey Sheridan
Jim Carver
Christina Ricci
Wendy Hood
Tobey Maguire
Paul Hood
Elijah Wood
Mikey Carver
Adam Hann-Byrd
Sandy Carver
Michael Cumpsty
Philip Edwards
Katie Holmes
Libbets Casey
Henry Czerny
George Clair
David Krumholtz
Francis Davenport
Kate Burton
Dorothy Franklin
William Cain
Ted Shackley
Maia Danziger
Mrs. Gadd
Michael Egerman
Pharmacist
Christine Farrell
Marie Earle
Glenn Fitzgerald
Neil Conrad
Allison Janney
Dot Halford
Jonathan Freeman
Ted Franklin
Barbara Garrick
Weather Reporter
Dennis Gagomiros
Stephen Earle
John Benjamin Hickey
Mark Boland
Tom Flagg
Train Conductor
Byron Jennings
Pierce Sawyer
Miles Marek
Mr. Gadd
Colette Kilroy
Sari Steele
Ivan Kronenfeld
Jack Moellering
Daniel McDonald
Weatherman
Donna Mitchell
Maria Conrad
Barbara Neal
Helen Wentworth
Nancy Opel
Claudia White
Larry Pine
Dave Gorman
Wendy Scott
Pharmacy Attendant
Marcell Rosenblatt
Mikey's Teacher
Evelyn Solann
Woman in Pharmacy
Jessica Stone
Marge
Sarah Thompson
Beth
Scott Wentworth
Paul's Teacher
Robert Westenberg
Rob Halford
Colleen Camp
Dr. Pasmier (uncredited)
Bill McIntyre
Libbet's Doorman (uncredited)
Joe O'Connor
Marty (uncredited)
Courtney Peldon
Billie (uncredited)
Bettina Skye
Drug Store Clerk (uncredited)
The Ice Storm Reviews
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Despite its mordant undertones, the film is often satirical and frequently very funny, and quietly observant in its performances.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
It's unfortunate that as capable a team as director Lee and screenwriter-producer Schamus should have become fascinated with such unpromising material.
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
[An] impressive adaptation of the Rick Moody novel.
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
The Ice Storm is perceptive about people, relationships, and human nature, and there's not a single moment in the entire 112 minute running length that rings false.
Chicago Tribune
Gene Siskel
Nothing less than one of the year's best pictures, a portrait of wealthy Connecticut suburbanites in the 1970s whose lives have no emotional or spiritual rudder.
New York Times
Janet Maslin
Lee daringly chooses to keep his story's motivational mysteries unexplained, leaving this richly observed film open to the viewer's assessments. Yet the sense of imbalance is ever-present and strong.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
With The Ice Storm, Lee seems to have emphasized the details of cultural accuracy over the rudiments of telling a gripping drama.
Slant Magazine
Arthur Ryel-Lindsey
As in any joke, destiny is a major character.
Newsweek
David Ansen
The Ice Storm captures this place, this season, this garish and confused moment in history, with surgical precision...It's Lee's sympathetic detachment that gives the movie its paradoxical power.
Vice
Jason Bailey
Among its many virtues, 'The Ice Storm' keenly captures the sheer, visceral terror of puberty-of grappling with these urges, trying to do what you think you're supposed to, and lashing out when you can't.
Variety
Todd McCarthy
A well-observed and deftly performed examination of upper-middle-class emotional deep freeze...
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
The best film about family so far this year. Just don't think Disney.
Salon.com
Charles Taylor
I don't know when I've seen actors realize so many affecting moments in such a muddled conception. Lee's aestheticized approach is its own kind of ice storm.
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
Over and over again in Austen, [Lee's] framing, his course of action, his editing suited and amplified the essence of the scene. But here everything in his directing, absolutely everything, is banal.
TheMovieReport.com
Michael Dequina
Beautifully nuanced, passionately performed, and terrifically realized piece of work.
Common Sense Media
Brian Costello
Drug use and sexual content in Ang Lee masterpiece.
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Beautifully acted, refreshingly un-camp in its take on wide lapels and progressive rock and occasionally coolly moving. It's just that ultimately, there's less here than meets the eye.
Detroit News
Susan Stark
Perceptively detailed in both the directing and acting, The Ice Storm commands strictest attention from start to finish.
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