Advantages: It keeps you very much awake Disadvantages: confusing side plots
I first heard about The Ice Harvest around a year ago, Stateside this movie developed quite a cult following. But here in the UK nobody knew it was here or what it was. The Ice Harvest’s interesting blend of story telling turns from comedic to incredibly dark at the drop of a hat. One movie two very different extremes, The Ice Harvest is one of the more unusual titles I’ve encountered this year.
Charlie (John Cusack) is a lawyer, a lawyer for the ... ...to two million dollars of the mobs money, before planning to leave the small rat infested hole he calls home. Vic (Billy Bob Thornton) is Charlie’s accomplice to this terrible crime, and the two plan to split the money and get a better life. But as the saying goes about the plans of mice and me, things are not as straightforward as they first seem. Its Christmas Eve, and the ice and rain have hit hard, its difficult to get out of town, it seems even ...
sghawken 31.05.2007
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