The Ice Harvest (Blu-ray) R
Thick Thieves. Thin Ice.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 29 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: November 13, 2018
- Originally Released: 2018
- Label: KL Studio Classics
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:
Nielsen's Renata is icy cold in her calculations, and an object lesson in how to play a lethal charmer plausibly without losing any of her erotic appeal. She alone is worth the price of admission.
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Observer
Rating: 2/4 --
The Ice Harvest is like Sin City without the bold style and crooked smile, disgorging grisly bloodbaths without drawing artful things out of them.
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Houston Chronicle
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
The comedy in The Ice Harvest comes in shades of dark and darker. That's my kind of humor.
Ebert & Roeper
Robert Benton and Harold Ramis, put on dunce caps and go stand in the corner.
The New Republic
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
Ramis' existential take on the material is strangely infectious. Life sucks, and all is corruption, he seems to say. We might as well have a laugh about it.
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Memphis Flyer
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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