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This fim is moody and morose, just like the book which I read a few years ago. It now has a talented director (Ang Lee) and some well-known actors (Kevin Kline, Signorey Weaver). The Ice Storm is a metaphor, of course, and the scenes takes place over a Thanksgiving weekend in New Canaan, CT in the early seventies. The parents are experimenting with the sexual revolution. The teenage children and smoking pot and feeling the anti-war movement. The sudden social changes are confusing everybody.
The story is dark and compelling and the children come across as more real than the parents. It is a hard film to watch, given its subject. Thought it was was excellent athough I wasn't smiling when the film ended. I was thinking.
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The Ice Storm is one of the all time great films in the past 25 years if not 50.
The director Ang Lee is easily one of the best Hollywood directors working today. Lee is special because he gets the most of out of his actors. The performances here are stirring and mesmerizing.
This film teases you and then slaps you upside down by it's stirring climax. Quite simply, one of the best endings ever!
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while one could easily consider ice storm a companion piece to the great american beauty, the genius film-maker ang lee actually made this film several prior to american beauty & this was unfortunately highly overlooked in 1997 & 1998 sad to say. with the elements of comedy & drama, we get a view of what life could've been like during the seventies right around the holidays. the world outside was going through some great changes, people were searching for their own identities, & family were losing touch with one another. this holiday season, 2 families will be put to the test in terms of loyalty, commitment, & will discover just how they mena to one another. ice storm features some excellent performances from kevin klein, joan & sigourney weaver in addition to some stellar performances from lesser-known actors/actresses around that time such as christina ricci, tobey maguire, & elijah wood. ang lee has crafted a funny, often touching look at a cold world in which we've inhabited based upon the great novel by rick moody. the best scene in my opinion is the scene where kevin klein carries his daughter(played wonderfully by christina ricci) on his back walking through the woods as the snow begins to fall. beautiful & heartwarming scene indeed. another great moment is the thanksgiving dinner where christina ricci's character leads the family into prayer & this is a complete riot. at such an affordable cost on vhs & dvd, why shouldn't you own this little known masterpiece in your library?
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A haunting, yet funny, pitch perfect examination of middle class existence in USA during close of Nixon era fleshed out with a superb ensemble cast with particular strength in the direction of the younger members. Some funny moments include the Carver's 8' wide water bed. Jim returns home to find wife Jaynee (Ms Weaver) reading, fully clothed with back turned on her (distant) side. Jim plops down and Jaynee is almost washed overboard. But he repeats the exercise! This time Ms Weaver is bounced into the air. She is NOT amused! Meanwhile, younger son Sammy is out blowing up his toys or using a cowhide whip, whipping the buds off the nearest rose bush. The older boy, Mikey (Elijah Wood) trying to do it to Wendy (Ms Ricci) who is wearing a Nixon mask as he does so. Wendy has other hilarious scenes as well: when asked to say Grace on Thanksgiving with her mother Helena (Ms Alllen) father Benjamin (Mr Kline) brother Paul (Mr Maguire) in attendance she launches into a political diatribe about how America stole from the Indians, bombed Vietnam whilst gorging themselves at Thanksgiving (etc). And, when her mother starts reminiscing about the innocence of her girlhood days, Wendy says " Are you all right Mum?". Benjamin's (Mr Kline's) attempt to talk about "the birds and the bees" to his 16 year old son Paul is frankly hilarious. True there is one truly squirmmaking scene - the key party - and the ending of the film is immensely moving, certainly, to every parent it must touch a deep chord.
But I think the rich humour of the film is often overlooked. It is at the same time, very funny, very sad, and very moving. One of the few movies I know that is complex enough in tone to be able to be called a tragi-comedy. Brilliant. Brilliant work.
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Highlights: All of the performances, especially Kevin Kline's and Christina Ricci's; heartbreaking subject matter; effective cinematography that unmistakably presages the coming of the storm; use of storm as a metaphorical force to bring about the story's culmination; director Ang Lee's sense of space and time is impeccable (film takes place in the 1970s.)
Lowpoints: Exaggerated at times, thus distancing itself from unmitigated genuineness; stretched out a little too long for two hours, could have been a tighter script; ending is slightly too clichéd.
Conclusion: A thoughtful period drama with a remarkable cast that won't stay with you for too long, but will unquestionably entertain and stimulate contemplation. The feeling of been-there, done-that is potent at times, yet And Lee's masterful direction prevents The Ice Storm from depending solely on the performances.
SEE THIS IF YOU LIKED: Breaking the Waves, Regarding Henry, American Beauty.
DON'T SEE THIS IF YOU LIKED: Happy Gilmore, Notting Hill, Marci X.
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