The Ice Storm (1997) |
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The Ice Storm Cast |
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Kevin Kline
(as Ben Hood)
with Joan Allen
Kevin Kline
(as Ben Hood)
with Sigourney Weaver
(as Janey Carver)
Tobey Maguire
(as Paul Hood)
with Katie Holmes
(as Libbets Casey)
Elijah Wood
(as Mikey Carver)
with Christina Ricci
(as Wendy Hood)
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The Ice Storm (1997) was nominated for the following awards:
BAFTA AwardsGolden Globes
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Golden Globe
1998 Young Artist Awards
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Young Artist Award
1998
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Young Artist Award
1998 Cannes Film FestivalSatellite Awards
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Golden Satellite Award
1998
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Golden Satellite Award
1998
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture - Drama
Nominated
Australian Film InstituteChlotrudis AwardsLondon Critics Circle Film AwardsBodil AwardsYoungStar Awards
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YoungStar Award
1998 |
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Quotes Ben Hood: The only big fight we`ve had in years is about whether to go back into couples therapy. Minister: Sometimes the shepherd needs the comfort of the sheep.
Wendy Hood: I`ll show you mine if you show me yours. [Saying grace at Thanksgiving]
Wendy Hood: Dear Lord, thank you for this Thanksgiving holiday. And for all the material possessions we have and enjoy. And for letting us white people kill all the Indians and steal their tribal lands. And stuff ourselves like pigs, even though children in Asia are being napalmed.
Ben Hood: Jesus! Enough, alright? Paul... roll? Janey Carver: A person`s body is his temple. Janey Carver: Ben, you`re boring me. I have a husband. I don`t have a need for another one. Ben Hood: What`s the name of this girl with a fancy New York address?
Paul Hood: Libbets. Libbets Casey.
Ben Hood: Libbets? What sort of a name is Libbets? Philip Edwards: Sometimes the shepherd needs the comfort of the sheep.
Elena Hood: I`m going to try hard not to understand the implications of that. [Explaining the facts of life to his son]
Ben Hood: On the self-abuse front - and this is important - I don`t think it`s advisable to do it in the shower. It wastes water and electricity and because we all expect you to be doing it there in any case. And, not on... under the linen... Well... Anyway, if you`re worried about anything at all, just feel free to ask and we`ll look it up. Mikey Carver: Because of molecules we are connected to the outside world from our bodies. Like when you smell things, because when you smell a smell it`s not really a smell, it`s a part of the object that has come off of it, molecules. So when you smell something bad, it`s like in a way you`re eating it. This is why you should not really smell things, in the same way that you don`t eat everything in the world around you because as a smell, it gets inside of you. So the next time you go into the bathroom after someone else has been there, remember what kinds of molecules you are in fact eating. [Mikey rides up behind Wendy]
Mikey Carver: I don`t ever want to see you.
Wendy Hood: Then why did you come after me?
[Mikey stops, turns his bike around and rides off] Janey Carver: Mikey`s been out of it since the day he was born.
[Stopping by his son`s room, momentarily putting down his luggage]
Jim Carver: Hey guys, I`m back!
Mikey Carver: You were gone? Jim Carver: Hey guys I`m back!
Mikey Carver: You were gone?
Jim Carver: ...Yes Mikey. Wendy Hood: Are you watching this?
Paul Hood: What?
Wendy Hood: Nixon, dufus, its incredible, he should be shot. Sandy Carver: [Sandy needs help with homework] Hey Mikey?
Mikey Carver: Yeah.
Sandy Carver: Geometry?
Mikey Carver: Sure, anything but this English.
Sandy Carver: How come your so good at Math, but not at English?
Mikey Carver: I`m not good at Math, just good at Geometry. It`s like you now when they say you have 2 squared, you think it mean 2 times 2 equals 4, but really they really mean a *square*. Its really space, its not numbers, its space. And it`s perfect space. But only in your head, because you can`t draw a perfect square in the material world. But in your mind, you can have a perfect space. You know?
Sandy Carver: Yeah, but I just need some help with my homework... Janey Carver: Mikey have you heard the explosions coming from the back yard?
Mikey Carver: ...I dunno
Janey Carver: Do you know what you brothers been up to?
Mikey Carver: I... I dunno. Sandy Carver: Where are you going?
Mikey Carver: Out.
Sandy Carver: Its freezing!
Mikey Carver: Yeah
Sandy Carver: Then why are you going?
Mikey Carver: When its freezing, Because it means the molecules aren`t moving, so when you breath, theres nothing in the air, you know, you breath into your body, the molecules have stopped, its clean. Wendy Hood: [playing with a soldier doll] Well, looks like someone got to his private parts before us.
Sandy Carver: Communist Viet Cong.
Wendy Hood: They left it in the jungle. Paul Hood: To find yourself in the negative zone, as the Fantastic Four often do, means all every day assumptions are inverted. Even the invisible girl herself becomes visible and so she loses the last semblance of her power. It seems to me that everyone exists partially on a negative zone level, some people more than others. In your life, it`s kind of like you dip in and out of it, a place where things don`t quite work out the way they should. But for some people, the negative zone tempts them. And they end up going in, going in all the way. [first lines]
Train Conductor: Good morning ladies and gentlemen. This train, originating from New York`s Grand Central Station, is back in service. Next stop will be New Canaan, Connecticut. New Canaan, Connecticut next stop.
Paul Hood: [narration] In issue 141 of the Fantastic Four, published in November, 1973, Reed Richards had to use his anti-matter weapon on his own son, who Aannihilus has turn into the Human Atom Bomb. It was a typical predicament for the Fantastic Four, because they weren`t like other superheroes. They were more like a family. And the more power they had, the more harm they could do to each other without even knowing it. That was the meaning of the Fantastic Four: that a family is like your own personal anti-matter. Your family is the void you emerge from, and the place you return to when you die. And that`s the paradox - the closer you`re drawn back in, the deeper into the void you go.Trivia a cf cdv To prepare for the film, Ang Lee let the cast members study stacks of magazine cutouts from the early 1970s. #
# When asked to say grace, Christina Ricci goes into a tirade about the cruelty that is celebrated as Thanksgiving. She makes a similar speech when making the Thanksgiving toast in Addams Family Values (1993). Although events in the film occur in November, filming actually began in the late spring. This is evidenced by an abundance of greenery in the exterior shots. #
# In the novel The Ice Storm, Rick Moody writes "And sometimes Paul himself was Ben Grimm, and sometimes he was Peter Parker, a.k.a. the Spider-Man" Ironically, Tobey Maguire plays both Paul and Peter Parker in the film versions. Film debut of Katie Holmes. The book Janey is reading while sitting on the water bed is "When She Was Good" by Philip Roth.
Rick Moody, the author of the novel was so pleased with the film he sobbed through the end credits. | ||
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