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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 .. Read more

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

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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 DVD Certificate 15.gif
Genres Action/Adventure, Comedy
Language English
Released DVD: 23 Oct 2006
Production year: 2005
Format DVD
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  • 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 »

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  • 10 out of 11 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    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.

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  • 4 out of 4 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 3 stars

    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

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    • 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 ...