MOVIE · 1997

The Ice Storm

Drama112 min

Over Thanksgiving weekend in 1973, two neighboring families in suburban Connecticut drift toward breakdown as affairs, resentment, and adolescent curiosity rise just before a devastating ice storm. Kevin Kline and Joan Allen are the strained couple at the center of one household, while Sigourney Weaver’s neighbor is caught in the same tangle of dissatisfaction and secrecy. Ang Lee frames the holiday gathering as a pressure point, moving between parents chasing escape and teenagers testing boundaries as the weather turns and the suburb’s orderly surface starts to crack.