The Ice Harvest
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Ice Harvest |
| Original title | The Ice Harvest |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Harold Ramis |
| script |
Richard Russo , Robert Benton |
| production |
Robert Benton Albert Berger Thomas J. Busch |
| music | David Kitay |
| camera | Alar Kivilo |
| cut | Lee Percy |
| occupation | |
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The film The Ice Harvest is an American crime comedy from Harold Ramis from the year 2005 . The main roles were played by John Cusack , Billy Bob Thornton and Connie Nielsen .
action
Together with the seedy film producer Vic Cavanaugh, mafia lawyer Charlie Arglist steals a good two million dollars from his client and gang boss Bill Guerrad on Christmas Eve in the small provincial town of Wichita. Freezing rain makes the roads to the Kansas City Airport impassable. So the thieves decide not to leave until the next morning. Vic takes the travel bag with the money. He asks Charlie to behave normally so that nothing is noticeable.
Charlie then makes his usual round of the city's red light bars. In the "Sweet Cage" he flirts with the manager Renata Crest. He suggests that he has a lot of money to start a new life with her. Renata doesn't go into that. When Charlie comes back from the washroom, he hears a menacing man asking the bartender about him. He hides until the man is gone.
He slips on the black ice and breaks his cell phone in the process. So he goes to Vic's regular bar, even though they wanted to stay separate. Charlie sits down next to him at the table fearful and warns him. Vic, however, stays cool and soon leaves the place. An employee asks Charlie to take away his very drunk friend Pete. Pete is the husband of Sarabeth, Charlie's ex-wife, thus the stepfather of Charlie's children Melissa and Spencer. On the way, this Charlie reveals that he already had a relationship with Sarabeth when Charlie was still married to her. Now his wife, stepchildren and in-laws despise him. Pete can only endure the whole situation with alcohol. Even the short visit to those named is embarrassing and ends in scandal.
Vic calls Charlie to his house on the phone. There's a car outside the door and Charlie comes across a pool of blood by the fireplace. He calls Renata and confesses to the theft of the money. Charlie tells her that Vic was killed and that he needs to get out of town as soon as possible. Renata should accompany him. She asks him if he has the stolen money. When he says no, she tells him to go to the villa to get the money.
Start-up dates and box office results
In the USA, the premiere took place on October 20, 2005, whereas the film was released on February 3, 2006 in Great Britain and on August 7, 2006 in Germany.
criticism
"Chilly staged, at the same time very stylishly arranged thriller with comedic accents and a thoroughly thought-provoking background."
“By no means a comedy as described here and there, but an ice-cold gangster thriller in the best style of the Coen brothers, riddled with comic situations, is this top-class excursion into the crime film field by director Harold Ramis (“ Caddyshack ”,“ And marmot greets every day ”). Billy Bob Thornton and John Cusack fight each other for money and Denmark's ice queen Connie Nielsen is, as a scheming femme fatale, not a bad cast. "
Web links
- Official page for the film
- The Ice Harvest in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Ice Harvest at Metacritic (English)
- The Ice Harvest at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ The Ice Harvest. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Film review on video.de ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
