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A story from the suburban 70s, where the kids are left out and the parents get into wife-swapping and adultery...

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ProducerAng Lee, Ted Hope, James Schamus

EAN5017188882156

eBay Product ID (ePID)3939040

Product Key Features

ActorTobey Maguire, Adam Hann-Byrd, Katie Holmes, Courtney Peldon, Christina Ricci, Alison Janney, Elijah Wood, David Krumholtz, Joan Allen, Michael Cumpsty, Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Henry Czerny, Jamey Sheridan

Film/TV TitleThe Ice Storm

DirectorAng Lee

LanguageEnglish

Run Time108 Mins

Aspect Ratio1.85 Wide Screen

FormatDVD

Release Year2006

FeaturesWidescreen, Interactive Menus\Scene Access

GenreDrama, General

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Number of Discs1

Certificate15

ComposerMychael Danna

Production DesignerMark Friedberg

ReviewsUSA Today - ...A jewel....A methodically constructed social satire of suburban boredom..., Sight and Sound - ...Perfectly conceived....THE ICE STORM is cinema at is most immaculate...

Additional InformationIt 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>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 made to accurately re-create 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. For director Ang Lee, the film continues the subtle examination of family life that he began with THE WEDDING BANQUET and EAT DRINK MAN WOMAN.

ScreenwriterJames Schamus

Costume DesignerCarol Oditz

Sound sourceDolby Digital 2.0

Movie/TV TitleThe Ice Storm

EditorTim Squyres

Director of PhotographyFrederick Elmes