The Ice Harvest Details

2005

Rated:
60
from 6761 members

Starring	John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, Connie Nielsen, Randy Quaid
Director	Harlod Ramis
Genres	Action/Adventure, Comedy

The Ice Harvest

In icebound Wichita, Kansas, it's Christmas Eve, and this year Charlie Arglist (John Cusack) just might have something to celebrate. Charlie, an attorney for the sleazy businesses of Wichita, and his unsavory associate, the steely Vic Cavanaugh (Billy Bob Thornton) have just successfully embezzled $2 million from Kansas City boss Bill Guerrard (Randy Quaid). But the real prize for Charlie is the stunning Renata (Connie Nielsen), who runs the Sweet Cage strip club. Charlie hopes to slip out of town with Renata. But as daylight fades and an ice storm whirls, everyone from Charlie's drinking buddy Pete Van Heuten (Oliver Platt) to the local police begin to wonder just what exactly is in Charlie's Christmas stocking - and the 12 hours of Christmas Eve are filled with surprises.

Starring	John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, Connie Nielsen, Randy Quaid, Oliver Platt
Director	Harlod Ramis
Studio	UNIVERSAL PICTURES UK VIDEO RENTAL
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 25 mins
Certificate
Genres	Action/Adventure, Comedy
Language	English
Released	DVD: 23 Oct 2006 Production year: 2005
Format	DVD

Critics' reviews (2) of The Ice Harvest
View all
Exactly the sort of movie people tend to discover on DVD and download these days, The Ice Harvest is a twisty mystery thriller in the style of the Coen brothers' Blood Simple and Fargo . read more »
- Tom Charity,
- LOVEFiLM
Most helpful member's review of The Ice Harvest
View all
10 out of 11 people found this review helpful

I'm dreaming of a black Christmas

Sublime, nobody does black humour better than John Cussack: (Grosse Point Blank), (Pushing Tin).

Not laugh out loud hilarious, but plenty of tasty little snippets to get you chuckling. A wonderful cast (Platt a totally believable drunk) even made me fancy a Vodka or 3! Billy Bob Thornton a calm, menacing Psychopath.

Lots of neat twists and turns and equiste one liners, very dark in Places yet still captures the essence of Christmas, (the opening credits are wonderful). I for one loved it and would recommend it unconditionally.
- - A customer from Herts
  - Posted 21 Nov 2006 01:39
Most recent members' review of The Ice Harvest
View all
4 out of 4 people found this review helpful

If you like it dry and dark

An enjoyable, film noirish vehicle for the always watchable and dry John Cusack. He is a lawyer who has planned the 'perfect crime' of stealling a fortune from his mob boss. Billy Bob Thornton has provided the balls to carry out the plan. The film begins at the start of the evening with the suitcase of money and follows John Cusack until dawn during which he has a long night involving strip joints, copious amounts of alcohol, a Christmas Eve dinner from hell, a manipulative vixen and a fair amount of treachery and deceit
- - Beth from Derbyshire
  - Posted 27 Mar 2007 12:10
News and features
View all
Feast of Love
- 02 Oct 2007
A change of pace from the usual high concept fare, Robert Benton's adaptation of a novel by Charles Baxter is a gentle philosophical comedy that will primarily appeal to older viewers' (older than the usual teenagers Hollywood caters to I mean). `It's true that we've seen Morgan Freeman playing sage counselor and friend rather often over the years. But you don't get typecast for nothing: if you were looking for advice, Morgan would seem like a good place to start. He's a great listener, he... Read more
More like this
View all
Showing 1 to 4 of 20

[+] [-]
Previous
State Of Grace

Sign up

Buy

Days Of Thunder

Sign up

Buy

Storytelling

Sign up

Buy

Spaceballs

Sign up

Buy
Next