The Ice Storm Certificate: 
- Duration:
- 112 mins
- Year produced:
- 1997
- Director:
- Ang Lee
- Cast:
- Kevin Kline
- Sigourney Weaver
- Joan Allen
The temperature in Connecticut in winter has fallen to well below freezing - and as family relations begin to splinter in this wealthy suburb, it's not much warmer indoors either. While the bored adults are either caught up in affairs, hitting the bottle or shoplifting, they notice that their adolescent kids are beginning to follow the same escape routes. For all its sadness though, these are loveable characters, and the story flashes with dark humour.
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Fascinating facts
In the novel from which The Ice Storm is adapted, writer Rick Moody says of the character of Paul that “sometimes he was Peter Parker, aka the Spider-Man.” In The Ice Storm, Paul is played by Tobey Maguire - who later went on to star as Peter Parker in three Spider-Man movies!
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