movies report

DOWNLOAD MOVIE Ice Harvest, The Just $2.99 for a complete movie! No additional software or browser plug-ins required! You can play them for unlimited number of times whenever you want. Downloaded movies will work perfectly on any PC, DVD player, PDA etc.
DIVX ($2.99)	DVD($4.99)	IPOD ($1.99)
Video Previews (divx):
File Name	Size:	Video preview
Ice Harvest (Video Preview).avi	14.54 MB	DOWNLOAD
The most interesting Screenshots for the "Ice Harvest, The" movie:

Ice Harvest, The
Dark comedy is a tough line to tread. Make it too funny and outlandish, nobody will buy into it. Make it too dark for the sake of being dark and edgy, you wind up with a film that will depress or disgust. And not in a good way. It's a tough genre, but when it works it's fantastic. And I'm happy to report that The Ice Harvest succeeds. The Ice Harvest is the latest film from Harold Ramis, the man who brought us Caddyshack, Groundhog's Day, and Analyze This, among others. The man is a comic genius, and he knows how to direct a flick. What I was amazed with the most was how at ease he was at shifting gears from black comedy into film noir, as he does with The Ice Harvest. The film stars John Cusack as Charlie Arglist, a lawyer for the "mob" in Wichita Falls, Kansas. Charlie and Vic (Billy Bob Thornton), an all around sleazy guy, join forces and steal $2.1 million from local crime boss Bill Guerrard (Randy Quaid) on Christmas Eve. They grab the cash but stick around until Christmas morning when they'll go to the airport and leave everything and everyone behind in Wichita Falls. Being that a plan is just a list of things that never happens, naturally complications arise. Thus ensues a number of twists and turns that include characters such as Renata (Connie Nielson) who owns a strip club and wants a certain incriminating photograph from Vic. It doesn't help that Charlie is in love with her, by the way. Also on their tail is Roy Gelles (Mike Starr, whom you'll recognize instantly by his voice, even if he remains in shadow for most of the film) who is the kind of man that eliminates problems for a man like Bill Guerrard. In a side story, Charlie has to help his drunken friend Pete (Oliver Platt) who wound up marrying Charlie's ex-wife and now lives in a loveless castrating marriage. Both Charlie and Pete exist in a world of lost masculinity. And both want out, but aren't too sure how to achieve this. Charlie believes that stealing the money and running away (with Renata, no less) will solve this. Pete just has no clue. So there's this twisty, noir infused plot I just tried to summarize without giving away any big twists, and it doesn't sound like the movie would be too funny. But it is. Oh my, it is hilarious. I can't even begin to get into it, but the comic highlights usually revolve around Pete's drunken antics. (Platt plays drunk very well, and seeing how the movie takes place in one night, he's gotta keep it up for the running time). But most of the humor, some sight gags aside, comes out of character, which I responded to in this flick a lot. What can I say about this movie? The acting is top notch. Cusack doesn't appear to be phoning it in (unlike recent romantic comedies) and is having fun with his character, who would not normally be in these situations. And Thornton you can tell just loves roles like this. He's truly in his element and having a grand old time, but he's not stealing the picture or hamming it up. He's very much in control of this character. And Oliver Platt is a comic god. Pretty much anything he says or does in the film made me laugh out loud. The dinner scene is quite good. But it's nice to see someone playing drunk and making it believable. Connie Nielson does well as the femme fatale (check out how they light her eyes, just like in the old noir films) and looks damn fine doing it. Damn fine. She is one good looking lady. Quaid is good and not over the top, but he really only has one scene, don't let the previews fool you. Even the supporting actors, who might not have a lot of screen time, manage to bring their A game to the table, making every scene a joy. Harold Ramis, did a great job. There might be a few missteps in his career path, but he's definitely in control here. he gets great performances and manages to tell a great story. The screenplay is based on a novel by Scott Phillips, and is adapted by Richard Russo and Robert Benton, who also wrote Nobody's Fool and Twilight together. (But Benton has also written some greats in the past like Kramer vs. Kramer  and Bonnie and Clyde, among others). The characters are fleshed out well enough to not be caricatures looking for the next "edgy" event to happen. And when the humor element makes way for the more noir-ish twisty last third, Ramis makes the transition with such ease you would have thought he had been making film noir for years.    The cinematography is quite good, by Alar Kavilo, who also shot the snowy thriller A Simple Plan (coincidentally also starring Thornton). The use of colors and neon in the strip club scenes (and there are a lot) match well with the diffused wet and cold outside. Seriously, as I watched the movie I forgot I was in southern California and was expecting a frigid outdoors upon leaving the theater. (I guess I get sucked into movies when I like them). Going along with the strip club theme, the production design is outstanding. Very sleazy and low rent. These clubs are not upscale at all. And there are a few of them in the film, as they point out Wichita Falls has as many strip clubs as churches. The editing is crisp and moves things along at a nice pace, never overstaying it's welcome. All around, I enjoyed this movie. Right up there with Die Hard and Bad Santa, this will become a holiday favorite at my house, which should give you a sense of how twisted I am around Christmas time. I have a feeling that a lot of people won't like this movie as much as I do, but if you like your comedy dark, and your femmes fatal, this is your kind of movie. Go see it. Seriously. Why are you even still reading this. GO!

download full dvd
watch divx movies
full length mpeg movies
divx movie
download Ice Harvest, The dvd movies
watch Ice Harvest, The full movies
watch Ice Harvest, The full movies online

annihilator hologogs
transitional lense sunglasses
electronic door lock internet
gatehouse flush mount hinge
solo males brendan s
hotchkies
myth one com
juli ashton
who is the cast of spiderman
maine windjammers