Bibliograph

The ice storm, director, Ang Lee

Type

Label

The ice storm, director, Ang Lee

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Intended audience

Rating: R; for sexuality and drug use, including scenes involving children, and for language

Main title

The ice storm

Oclc number

843959422

Responsibility statement

director, Ang Lee

Runtime

113

Summary

Suburban Connecticut, 1973. While Richard Nixon's 'I am not a crook' speech drones from the TV, the Hood and Carver families try to navigate a Thanksgiving break simmering with unspoken resentment, sexual tension, and cultural confusion. With clarity, subtlety, and a dose of wicked humor, Academy Award winning director Ang Lee renders Rick Moody's acclaimed novel of upper-middle-class American malaise as a trenchant, tragic cinematic portrait of lost souls

Technique

live action

Contributor