The Ice Storm

The Ice Storm

  • Director: Ang Lee
  • Writer: Rick Moody,James Schamus
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English
  • Release date: November 26, 1997
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: La tormenta de hielo
  • "The Ice Storm" is a feature film produced by Fox Searchlight, directed by Ang Lee and co-starring Kevin Kline , Joan Allen and Sigourney Weaver . The film was released in the United States on September 27, 1997.
    The film tells the story of a middle-class family in Connecticut, USA, on the verge of rupture in 1970   .

    Details

    • Release date November 26, 1997
    • Filming locations New Canaan, Connecticut, USA
    • Production companies Fox Searchlight Pictures, Good Machine, Canal+ Droits Audiovisuels

    Box office

    Budget

    $18,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $8,038,061

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $75,183

    Gross worldwide

    $8,038,061

    Movie reviews

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    • By Russ 2022-04-24 07:01:14

      I feel like a short review is not enough...

      Watch and write it down:

      1. The soundtrack written by md is too similar to "Sweet Afterlife", which leads to a taste of Yi Gaoyang's upper body in the whole film. Of course, according to today's words, it is very foreign.

      2. Ebert said don't look at the kernel is ironic, but the stalks are funny. When I was a child, I really didn't see the point of laughter, but now I see it, but some of the stalks are still unbearable, and the background is too much.

      3. But...

    • By Connie 2022-04-24 07:01:14

      marital predicament

      The shooting style is delicate and the subject is revealed profoundly. It depicts two middle-class American families with a pair of children in the Nixon era who have been married for more than ten years. They are neighbors to each other and have many contacts on weekdays, but they both face the same marriage. Crisis and educational dilemmas with children of youthful rebellion. The wife of family 1 is reticent, the husband, the husband of family 2 is busy with work all day and neglects his...

    • By Jeremy 2022-04-23 07:02:39

      boy, man, girl, woman

      Be careful, this family of four human elements is a storm.

      Boy, the turmoil and depression of his youth is a dangerous knife that can stab others and himself at any time;

      man, his suppressed desire for freedom and desire is a knife that can easily cut through a dozen or so with a single twist. The welding gun for the monolithic family of years.

      Girl, her naive but complex, loving but cruel heart is a fuse that burns silently, not knowing what to detonate at any...

    • By Ellen 2022-04-23 07:02:39

      Very Western and not Asian

      When I was in high school, there was a joke that the groom spent a whole night and finally the bride's cn film finally
      broke The child experimented with ooxx. At that time, I really laughed until the internal injury
      casts were very powerful. I remember that in the end spiderman was still frodo. His parents were still playing swing parties. It's the kind of bright family. In fact, everyone's heart is as dry as a birch tree in winter. Later, I went to know that the suburbs of NY are...

    • By Adelbert 2022-04-23 07:02:39

      Very Western and not Asian

      When I was in high school, there was a joke that the groom spent a whole night and finally the bride's cn film finally
      broke The child experimented with ooxx. At that time, I really laughed until the internal injury
      casts were very powerful. I remember that in the end spiderman was still frodo. His parents were still playing swing parties. It's that kind of bright family. In fact, everyone's heart is as dry as a birch tree in winter. After going to work, I know that the suburbs of NY...

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    • By Alivia 2023-09-30 03:12:23

      I just think that Uncle An's works are very good-looking, eye-catching and touching from any...

    • By Shyanne 2023-09-24 03:00:43

      A little rough, very Ang Lee. Western skin, Eastern meat. The more people who study movies, the more they like this film. At that time, the narrative and audio-visual language were not as skilled and stable as they were later. Cold and rigid go hand in hand, but the scenery of the ice storm was extremely beautiful. Like what happened one night, only the people involved left scars in their hearts. 20110112@China Film...

    • By Collin 2023-09-13 07:29:07

      In "Ice Storm", Ang Lee uses the combination of Eastern and Western expressions and audio-visual language to highly deconstruct family conflicts and conflicts in American society. In a small setting, it is a multi-line group portrait of the American middle-class society. Using a lyrical symbolic metaphor such as the ice storm to imply three simultaneous destructions of people in different places, as well as the mutual distrust and emotional alienation of people under the surface of modern...

    • By Shaun 2023-09-13 01:45:37

      I don’t really understand this kind of family ethics drama. It’s about children’s sexual enlightenment, about the estrangement between parents, broken family, little three intervening, and wife-swapping parties. Anyway, as a Taiwanese Chinese, Ang Lee can restore the story of the 1970s in the United States. To be so exquisite, it is...

    • By Reymundo 2023-09-10 20:45:51

      Everyone is walking alone on the way forward. This is both a helpless and a relief. The fruit of loneliness is destined to be tasted alone. Just don't worry, don't be afraid, because there will always be a gentle embrace by your side waiting for you at the right distance. look...

    Movie plot

    This ordinary family could have lived peacefully, but the tide of the times pushed them to the brink of chaos. The ordinary and boring family life bored middle-aged couples. Husband Ben Hood had been seducing neighbor Janet Harper, and the wife had become impatient with her husband’s lies. She and a pair of children accidentally witnessed the husband and daughter. The scene of neighbors embarrassing, an emotional storm between husband...
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    Evaluation action

    "The Ice Storm" is director Ang Lee's first truly American film. A large part of the film's success comes from the excellent script. It is necessary to plan a strong drama tension to accumulate the ups and downs of family affairs that happened in a night, the ups and downs of handling, and the outbreak of contradictions. Under this tension, the director still uses his usual gentle style, using the soundtrack to mobilize the ideological...
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    Movie quotes

    • Ben Hood: We were golfing. You know, golfing, to me, is something I'm *supposed* to enjoy. And I was on the goddamn golf team in college, so it's something one would assume I'd do well. I used to do well. But basically, these days, golfing for me is like hoeing... or plowing. It's like farming. And George Clair has obviously, in the mere two years since he's been with the firm, he's obviously been taking secret lessons with a golf pro. And I bet the entirety of his disposable income has been dedicated to humiliating me on the golf course. That guy talks nonstop throughout the entirety of the misery of the miserable 18 holes...

      Janey Carver: Ben.

      Ben Hood: On topics that are the supposed domain of my department.

      Janey Carver: Ben.

      Ben Hood: Yeah?

      Janey Carver: You're boring me. I have a husband. I don't particularly feel the need for another.

      Ben Hood: You have a point there. That's a very good point. We're having an affair. Right. An explicitly sexual relationship. Your needs, my needs. You're absolutely right.

      Janey Carver: You better get dressed. The boys will be home soon.

      Ben Hood: Gotcha.

      [they both get out of bed]

    • Ben Hood: What's the name of this girl with a fancy New York address?

      Paul Hood: Libbets. Libbets Casey.

      Ben Hood: Libbets? What sort of a name is Libbets?

    • Philip Edwards: Sometimes the shepherd needs the comfort of the sheep.

      Elena Hood: I'm going to try hard not to understand the implications of that.