Ang Lee on Location
November 28, 2012
Film Info
- United States
- 1997
- 113 minutes
- Color
- 1.85:1
- English
- Spine #426
Suburban Connecticut, 1973. While Richard Nixon’s “I am not a crook” speech drones from the TV, the Hood and Carver families try to navigate a Thanksgiving break simmering with unspoken resentment, sexual tension, and cultural confusion. With clarity, subtlety, and a dose of wicked humor, Academy Award–winning director Ang Lee renders Rick Moody’s acclaimed novel of upper-middle-class American malaise as a trenchant, tragic cinematic portrait of lost souls. Featuring a tremendous cast of established actors (Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Sigourney Weaver) and rising stars (Tobey Maguire, Christina Ricci, Elijah Wood, Katie Holmes) The Ice Storm is among the finest films of the 1990s.
Cast
| Ben Hood | Kevin Kline |
| Elena Hood | Joan Allen |
| Janey Carver | Sigourney Weaver |
| Paul Hood | Tobey Maguire |
| Wendy Hood | Christina Ricci |
| Mikey Carver | Elijah Wood |
| Jim Carver | Jamey Sheridan |
| Sandy Carver | Adam Hann-Byrd |
| Libbets Casey | Katie Holmes |
| Francis Davenport | David Krumholtz |
| Phillip Edwards | Michael Cumpsty |
| George Clair | Henry Czerny |
| Dot Halford | Allison Janney |
| Neil Conrad | Glenn Fitzgerald |
Credits
| Director | Ang Lee |
| Screenplay | James Schamus |
| Producer | Ted Hope, Ang Lee and James Schamus |
| Cinematography | Frederick Elmes |
| Editing | Tim Squyres |
| Based upon the novel by | Rick Moody |
| Music | Mychael Danna |
| Production design | Mark Friedberg |
| Costume design | Carol Oditz |
Disc Features
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION:
- Restored high-definition (2K on the Blu-ray) digital film transfer, supervised and approved by director Ang Lee and director of photography Frederick Elmes, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- Audio commentary featuring Lee and producer-screenwriter James Schamus
- Documentary featuring interviews with actors Joan Allen, Kevin Kline, Tobey Maguire, Christina Ricci, Sigourney Weaver, and Elijah Wood
- Interview with novelist Rick Moody
- Deleted scenes
- Footage from a 2007 event honoring Lee and Schamus at New York’s Museum of the Moving Image
- Illustrated audio interviews with Elmes, production designer Mark Friedberg, and costume designer Carol Oditz
- Trailer
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Bill Krohn
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