It was 1973, and the climate was changing.
In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hood family is skidding out of control. Then an ice storm hits, the worst in a century.
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Prestige, classical in form, contemplative and grave.
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Dec 20257/10
With both Thanksgiving and an ice storm approaching their early 70s Connecticut town, the “Hood” and “Carver” families are congregating for their celebrations in which you sense you might actually be safer if you were the turkey. We first meet the former family where dad “Ben” (Kevin Kline) is pretty much only going through the motions in his marriage to “Elena” (Joan Chen). Their loved up teenage son “Paul” (Tobey Maguire) has arrived from college in New York, and then there is daughter “Wendy” (Christina Ricci). The latter lot appear just as messy as “Jim” (Jamey Sheridan) and “Janey” (Sigourney Weaver) have their two kids “Mikey” (Elijah Wood) and “Sandy” (Adam Hann-Byrd) and both are replete with all the usual familial dysfunction you’d expect from small town America (or anywhere else). What we learn fairly swiftly is that “Ben” is having a long-term affair with “Janey”; “Wendy” is engaged in something embryonic with “Mikey” - to the chagrin of “Sandy” and with tempers raising as exponentially as the temperatures outside are dropping, things begin to come to a long-awaited head. Though the scenarios are somewhat exaggerated here, this is one of the best character studies I’ve s
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Cast
- Kevin KlineBen Hood
- Joan AllenElena Hood
- Sigourney WeaverJaney Carver
- Jamey SheridanJim Carver
- Christina RicciWendy Hood
- Tobey MaguirePaul Hood
- Elijah WoodMikey Carver
- Adam Hann-ByrdSandy Carver
- Michael CumpstyPhilip Edwards
- Katie HolmesLibbets Casey
Crew
- Ang LeeDirector
- James SchamusScreenplay
- Rick MoodyNovel
- Frederick ElmesDirector of Photography
- Mychael DannaOriginal Music Composer
- Tim SquyresEditor
- Ted HopeProducer
- Ang LeeProducer
- James SchamusProducer
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