The Ice Harvest (2005)
Average Rating: 5.5/10
Reviews Counted: 130
Fresh: 60 | Rotten: 70
The Ice Harvest offers a couple of laughs, but considering the people involved, it should be a lot funnier.
Average Rating: 5.5/10
Critic Reviews: 34
Fresh: 16 | Rotten: 18
The Ice Harvest offers a couple of laughs, but considering the people involved, it should be a lot funnier.
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Two men on the run from the mob end up negotiating more than their share of obstacles along the way in this comedy drama from director Harold Ramis. Vic Cavanaugh (Billy Bob Thornton) and Charlie Arglist (John Cusack) are a pair of friends who work for Bill Gerard (Randy Quaid), a mobster with his finger in a number of illegal businesses. Vic runs a pornography distribution outfit for Bill, while Charlie is a lawyer who keeps Bill and his partners out of jail, and between them, Vic and Charlie
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All Critics (139) | Top Critics (35) | Fresh (62) | Rotten (72) | DVD (22)
Robert Benton and Harold Ramis, put on dunce caps and go stand in the corner.
Top CriticNielsen's Renata is icy cold in her calculations, and an object lesson in how to play a lethal charmer plausibly without losing any of her erotic appeal. She alone is worth the price of admission.
The comedy in The Ice Harvest comes in shades of dark and darker. That's my kind of humor.
The Ice Harvest is like Sin City without the bold style and crooked smile, disgorging grisly bloodbaths without drawing artful things out of them.
... a thriller that's not very thrilling but is as violent as the best of them.
The Ice Harvest isn't a subversive piece of work; it's not making some grand statement about the dark side of the holiday spirit. But what it is saying in its grimly funny way is that we can't always control the timing of our disasters.
Dead cold
Dark comedy about a mob lawyer who steals $2 mil.
...generally comes off as an effective adaptation of Scott Phillips' admittedly superior novel...
When a lot of you tell me you want intelligent movies made by adults for adults, you're asking for movies like this one.
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A great cast, a script by Oscar-winning veteran Robert Benton, with Richard Russo, and direction by Harold Ramis still don't add up to much more than a shrug.
90% cynicism / 10% hope, and it's jammed full of funny performances, dark divergences, and a low-key air of existential angst that you simply don't see in many multiplex movies. I love this one.
Audience Reviews for The Ice Harvest
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- Pete Van Heuten: Everybody has regrets. Guys our age, what else is there?
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- Charlie Arglist: It's all a matter of character. Of course, if I had any character, I wouldn't have stolen 2 million dollars from my boss.
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- Charlie Arglist: People always say that there's no such thing as the perfect crime. But I don't agree with that.
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- Vic Cavanaugh: Only morons are nice at christmas.
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