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'The Ice Harvest': Won't reap laughs
by Eleanor Ringel Gillespie

...how did so many talented people manage to make such a dismal slush of a black comedy? Read the full review

TO SUM UP
Sleazy lawyer Charlie Arglist and his unsavory associate, Vic Cavanaugh, have just embezzled $2 million from Kansas City boss Bill Guerrard. But as daylight fades and an ice storm whirls, everyone from Charlie's drinking buddy to the local police begin to wonder just what exactly is in Charlie's Christmas stocking.

FILM FACTS ...

Focus Features

'The Ice Harvest'

Director: Harold Ramis
Starring: John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Platt, Randy Quaid
Run time: 88 minutes
Release date: Nov. 23, 2005
Rating: R for violence, language and sexuality/nudity.
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READ THE REVIEW

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: D-
"Neither funny enough nor black enough, 'The Ice Harvest' is a lazy, haphazard picture that spins its wheels like a Kia on an icy road."