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The Ice Harvest (Blu-ray)
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 29 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 28, 2006
- Originally Released: 2005
- Label: Focus Features
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton & Connie Nielsen | |
Performer: | Randy Quaid, Oliver Platt, Justine Bentley, Ned Bellamy & Mike Starr | |
Directed by | Harold Ramis | |
Edited by | Lee Percy | |
Screenplay by | Robert Benton & Richard Russo | |
Composition by | David Kitay | |
Produced by | Albert Berger & Ron Yerxa | |
Director of Photography: | Alar Kivilo | |
Executive Production by | Robert Benton, Richard Russo & Glenn Williamson |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 5/5 --
When a lot of you tell me you want intelligent movies made by adults for adults, you're asking for movies like this one.
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eFilmCritic.com
Rating: 2.5/4 --
...generally comes off as an effective adaptation of Scott Phillips' admittedly superior novel...
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Reel Film Reviews
A smug, and awfully dull quasi-noir comedy...
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Cinema Crazed
Robert Benton and Harold Ramis, put on dunce caps and go stand in the corner.
The New Republic
Rating: 2.5/4 --
... a thriller that's not very thrilling but is as violent as the best of them.
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Toronto Star
[Harold] Ramis caters to the story and the actors with a style of old-fashioned directing that makes you feel comfortable watching the movie, even as the sarcasm devilishly spins and spirals into places one wouldn't normally dare to go.
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Behind The Lens
Rating: A- --
The Ice Harvest isn't a subversive piece of work; it's not making some grand statement about the dark side of the holiday spirit. But what it is saying in its grimly funny way is that we can't always control the timing of our disasters.
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Christian Science Monitor
Product Description:
Based on the novel by Scott Phillips, THE ICE HARVEST is a comic film noir set in very cold and icy Wichita, Kansas. John Cusack turns in another fine performance as Charlie Arglist, a soft-spoken lawyer who works for local mob boss Bill Guerrard (Randy Quaid). Charlie hangs out in strip clubs, pines after femme fatale Renata (Connie Nielsen), rarely sees his kids, and basically watches life happen all around him. Ready for a change, he and the much more hardened Vic Cavanaugh (Billy Bob Thornton) steal $2.1 million from Guerrard and plan to play it cool before leaving town, trying not to create suspicion. All they need to do is make it through Christmas Eve--but that's not going to be easy for Charlie, who spends the long night getting caught up in a series of very funny, very dangerous, and very bloody events that unfold while sweet Christmas carols echo in the background. Reminiscent of such stylish modern noirs as RED ROCK WEST and FARGO, THE ICE HARVEST features a clever script by Oscar-winner Robert Benton and Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Russo, and was directed by Harold Ramis, the former SCTV star and Ghostbuster who has helmed such successful films as CADDYSHACK, GROUNDHOG DAY, and ANALYZE THIS. The acting is uniformly excellent--including Mike Starr as hit man Roy Gelles, who never shows his face--but Oliver Platt runs away with the film as Pete Van Heuten, an old friend of Charlie's who stole his family and now is an obnoxious, hysterical, pathetic drunken fool with a good heart.
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Product Info
- UPC: 025192629624
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