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The Ice Storm
The Ice Storm is a 1997 American drama film directed by Ang Lee and written by James Schamus adapting the 1994 novel The Ice Storm by Rick Moody. During Thanksgiving in 1973, two neighboring suburban families seek escape from their emotional emptiness through infidelity and self-indulgence. The film stars Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Tobey Maguire, Christina Ricci, Elijah Wood, Katie Holmes, Glenn Fitzgerald, Jamey Sheridan, and Sigourney Weaver. The film was produced by Fox Searchlight Pictures on a budget of .
Plot
In 1973, two families in an affluent Connecticut suburb experiment with adultery and substance abuse over one Thanksgiving weekend. One family, the Hoods, consists of parents Ben and Elena and their children, Paul and Wendy. Ben is dissatisfied with his marriage and his career.
More details
| author | James Schamus |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Connecticut |
| director | Ang Lee |
| editor | Tim Squyres |
| events | dysfunctional family |
| genre | drama |
| keywords | black friday boarding school car keys clothe drive engage even fall friday night after thanksgiving how to ice storm lose married couple new canaan station pick up power line power outage sexual encounter substance abuse swap sexual partners swing thanksgiving tryst walk winter storm |
| musicBy | Mychael Danna |
| producer | Ted Hope |
| publisher | 20th Century Fox Buena Vista International Danish Film Institute |
| recordedAt | Connecticut |
| theme | independent urban |