Main specs
Actor(s): John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, Connie Nielsen, Randy Quaid, Ned Bellamy, Oliver Platt, Mike Starr
Director(s): Harold Ramis
Genre: Drama - Comedy
Classification: 15 years and over
Production Year: 2005
Running Time: 1 hour 25 minutes
Consumer Advice: Contains strong language, violence and sex references
Video Category: Feature Film
Plot: Charlie is a mob lawyer who's just pulled a stunt that will either make him seriously rich or dead as a doornail. Charlie and his hapless accomplice Vic have just stolen $2 million dollars from seedy gangster Bill. Together with Charlie's stripper squeeze Renata, all that separates them from a new life is one long night of calamity and dirty deeds.
Release details
DVD Region: Region 2 (Europe)
Studio(s): UNIVERSAL PICTURES UK; UNIVERSAL MUSIC OPERATIONS
Release date: 23/10/2006
No of Discs: 1
Catalogue No: 8242919
Set Designer: Robert R. Benton
Barcode: 5050582429190
Screenwriter: Richard Russo
Writer: Robert R. Benton, Richard Russo
Languages
Main Language: English
Dubbed Language: Catalan
Subtitle Language: Catalan
Hearing Impaired Language: English
Technical information
Special Features: Feature commentary with director Harold Ramis, Two alternative endings, Outtakes with Billy Bob Thornton, Cracking the Story, Beneath the Harvest, Ice Cracking - Analysis of a Scene
Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1
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DVD Description
Based on the novel by Scott Phillips, THE ICE HARVEST is a comic film noir set in very cold and icy Wichita, Kansas. John Cusack turns in another fine performance as Charlie Arglist, a soft-spoken lawyer who works for local mob boss Bill Guerrard (Randy Quaid). Charlie hangs out in strip clubs, pines after femme fatale Renata (Connie Nielsen), rarely sees his kids, and basically watches life happen all around him. Ready for a change, he and the much more hardened Vic Cavanaugh (Billy Bob Thornton) steal $2.1 million from Guerrard and plan to play it cool before leaving town, trying not to create suspicion. All they need to do is make it through Christmas Eve--but that's not going to be easy for Charlie, who spends the long night getting caught up in a series of very funny, very dangerous, and very bloody events that unfold while sweet Christmas carols echo in the background. Reminiscent of such stylish modern noirs as RED ROCK WEST and FARGO, THE ICE HARVEST features a clever script by Oscar-winner Robert Benton and Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Russo, and was directed by Harold Ramis, the former Ghostbuster who has helmed such successful films as CADDYSHACK, GROUNDHOG DAY, and ANALYZE THIS. The acting is uniformly excellent--including Mike Starr as hit man Roy Gelles, who never shows his face--but Oliver Platt runs away with the film as Pete Van Heuten, an old friend of Charlie's who stole his family and now is an obnoxious, hysterical, pathetic drunken fool with a good heart.
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