The Ice Storm (Criterion Collection) (2-DVD) R
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 53 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 18, 2008
- Originally Released: 1997
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Tobey Maguire, Sigourney Weaver, Joan Allen & Kevin Kline | |
Performer: | Christina Ricci, Elijah Wood, Katie Holmes, Jamey Sheridan, Adam Hann-Byrd, David Krumholtz, Henry Czerny, Courtney Peldon, Allison Janney & Michael Cumpsty | |
Directed by | Ang Lee | |
Edited by | Tim Squyres | |
Screenwriting by | James Schamus | |
Composition by | Mychael Danna | |
Produced by | James Schamus, Ted Hope & Ang Lee | |
Director of Photography: | Frederick Elmes |
Entertainment Reviews:
A well-observed and deftly performed examination of upper-middle-class emotional deep freeze...
Variety
Rating: 4/4 --
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.
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Chicago Tribune
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.
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Vice
The key to The Ice Storm's ambiguity and unexpected depth is that the events of the story mean wholly different things to different characters -- there's no moral, just life sliced like a loaf of bread.
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Spin
...The film is often satirical and frequently very funny, and quietly observant in its performances...
Chicago Bulletin
...Perfectly conceived....THE ICE STORM is cinema at is most immaculate...
Sight and Sound
Rating: 5/5 --
Drug use and sexual content in Ang Lee masterpiece.
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Common Sense Media
Product Description:
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.
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 accurately recreate the fashion, philosophy, and music of the 1970s without devolving into camp. Sigourney Weaver, Kevin Kline, and Joan Allen all excel in their roles, but it is the younger actors (Christina Ricci, Tobey Maguire, Elijah Wood, Adam Hann-Byrd) who steal the show.
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 accurately recreate the fashion, philosophy, and music of the 1970s without devolving into camp. Sigourney Weaver, Kevin Kline, and Joan Allen all excel in their roles, but it is the younger actors (Christina Ricci, Tobey Maguire, Elijah Wood, Adam Hann-Byrd) who steal the show.
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