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Thin Ice
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 33 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 12, 2012
- Originally Released: 2011
- Label: 20Th Century Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Greg Kinnear, Alan Arkin & Billy Crudup | |
Performer: | Bob Balaban, Lea Thompson & David Harbour | |
Directed by | Jill Sprecher | |
Edited by | Lee Percy | |
Screenwriting by | Jill Sprecher & Karen Sprecher | |
Composition by | Jeff Danna | |
Cinematography by | Dick Pope | |
Produced by | Mary Frances Budig, Elizabeth Redleaf & Christine Walker | |
Director of Photography: | Dick Pope |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/4 --
The movie never fully clicks.
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Boston Globe
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Thin Ice's troubled production history - the film was famously taken away from director Jill Sprecher and re-edited following its Sundance premiere - can't quite dampen what is, for the most part, an entertaining little comedy/thriller...
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Reel Film Reviews
The characters are endearingly flawed, the set-up is mischievously appealing and the story is endlessly surprising. The humour is black, the resolution audacious.
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Urban Cinefile
Rating: 2/4 --
It's just a little slow getting started.
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Washington Post
In the vein of Fargo and A Simple Plan, Thin Ice is a delicious black crime comedy that melts before our eyes
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Urban Cinefile
Rating: C+ --
At one point you're looking at the screen going, "This makes no sense!" Then after a long conclusionary explanation, you shake your head and say, "I'm still not sure that made much sense."
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Detroit News
3 stars out of 4 -- The acting helps to float the movie. These actors are quirky in complementary ways...
Chicago Sun-Times
Product Description:
A salesman in a slump turns to a life of crime in this comedy-drama from filmmaker Jill Sprecher. Mickey Prohaska (Greg Kinnear) is an insurance salesman living and working in rural Wisconsin. Mickey likes to believe that he's a talented salesman who can talk anyone in to buying a policy, but the truth is his career has hit the skids, he's struggling to make ends meet, and his divorce from his wife Jo Ann (Lea Thompson) has shaken his confidence. Mickey and his new partner Bob Egan (David Harbour) are able to sell a policy to elderly farmer Gorvy Hauer (Alan Arkin), though Gorvy seems more interested in having someone come by and fix his television than discussing his financial future. One day, Mickey is paying Gorvy a visit when he makes a remarkable discovery -- the old violin in his living room is a vintage one worth $30,000. Seeing an easy payday, Mickey begins hatching a scheme to get the instrument away from Gorvy and into the hands of a violin dealer, but his plan gets more complicated at every turn and eventually goes from difficult to dangerous. Also starring Bob Balaban and Billy Crudup, THE CONVINCER (aka THIN ICE) was an official selection at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.