The Ice Harvest [2005]

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Added: 2018-11-22

The Ice Harvest (2005)
Thick Thieves. Thin Ice.
'Twas the night before Christmas...

Rating: 6.3

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Genre: Comedy (Crime| Drama| Thriller)

Length: 1 h 28 min - 88 min

Video: 1920x1040 (23.976 Fps - 2 150 Kbps)

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Larceny, lust and lethal behavior. In icebound Wichita, Kansas, it's Christmas Eve, and this year Charlie Arglist just might have something to celebrate. Charlie, an attorney for the sleazy businesses of Wichita, and his unsavory associate, the steely Vic Cavanaugh have just successfully embezzled $2 million from Kansas City boss Bill Guerrard. But the real prize for Charlie is the stunning Renata, who runs the Sweet Cage strip club. Charlie hopes to slip out of town with Renata. But as daylight fades and an ice storm whirls, everyone from Charlie's drinking buddy Pete Van Heuten to the local police begin to wonder just what exactly is in Charlie's Christmas stocking - and the 12 hours of Christmas Eve are filled with surprises.
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On Christmas Eve in Wichita, Kansas. Charlie Arglist, (John Cusack) a mob lawyer, has just stolen a duffel bag full of money from his employer (Randy Quaid) with the help of Vincent "Vic" Cavanaugh (Billy Bob Thornton). All they have to do is act casually and unsuspiciously until they leave town. But an ice storm has blocked the roads, so Vic takes the money while Charlie spends the night visiting his client's strip clubs and evading suspicion. Early on, he meets up with Renata (Connie Nielsen), a strip club owner after whom he has secretly lusted. She hints at spending the night with him if he can produce a certain photo of a local politician's indiscretion for her to use as blackmail. Things begin to go sour when an enforcer for Charlie's boss comes looking for him and Vic. The body count mounts as the ice beneath Charlie's "perfect crime" begins to slowly crack.

Harold Ramis offered a role to Bill Murray but Murray did not return his calls.
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The weather got to be so bad during shooting that Harold Ramis was almost forced to close production for a day, which would've ended his perfect record of never losing a shooting day.
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John Cusack's character's last name, Arglist, translates to "guile" or "deceitfulness" in German.
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The tag line "As falls Wichita so falls Wichita Falls" is the title of a Pat Metheny/Lyle Mays album from 1981.
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The name of Lindsay Porter's character 'Gladys' means 'Slippery Ice' in Dutch (glad ijs). Therefore it directly refers to the Dutch expression "Zich op glad ijs begeven" ("Being on slippery ice") which is applied when one finds oneself beyond known conditions and anything might happen.
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'The Sweet Cage' is a defunct restaurant Harold Ramis and his family used to eat at when he was a kid. Its flatware and cutlery were used for the upscale restaurant where Vic was eating.
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Monica Bellucci was initially signed to play the character of Renata but had to back out due to her pregnancy.
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Scott Phillips initially convinced himself that his novel The Ice Harvest was unadaptable. Upon reading it again, he felt that his book could indeed be adapted.
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Body Count: 6
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When Vic shoots the chest he points the gun at the passenger side of the chest. When they pull the chest out of the car the bullet hole is on the driver side of the chest.
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When Pete gets dragged out of the bar by the bartender's boyfriend, his pants get ripped in the back. In the subsequent shot, there is no tear.
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The Mercedes's upright hood ornament disappears and reappears between scenes.
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The umbrella in Charlie's drink jumps about between shots.
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When Vic and Charlie are in the restaurant after Charlie drops and breaks his phone, it is intact/broken in subsequent shots.
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Near the beginning of the film as Charlie is leaving Vic's car, he goes to grab the bag of money while holding an umbrella in his right hand, in the next subsequent shot he is holding the umbrella in his left hand, and then in the following shot it is back in his right hand.
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When Charlie is in the convenience store buying the toys for his children, a cooler can be seen with wine in it. Kansas only sells wine in liquor stores.
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The $2,147,000.00 would not fit in that bag. When Charlie opens the bag you can see bricks of hundred dollar bills. Each "brick" contains 1,000 bills or $100,000.00. The bag would need to hold 21 bricks of hundred dollar bills. The bag is too small to hold 21 bricks.
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When they go to load the body in the back of the Mercedes its an obvious dummy, as seen by how it flops around lightly after being thrown in there.
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When Bill Guerrard is shown in Renata's office at first, his suit jacket is blue. But after getting shot in the face, he is seen on the floor and his suit jacket is black. Then when Bill Guerrard gets up after not being killed, his suit jacket is blue again.
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At the pier, Roy shoots Vic while inside the trunk. He then shoots out the lock and breaks open the trunk. Vic shoots Roy once more and the dock collapses throwing both into the water. The trunk is once again locked and floating with Vic holding onto it.
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Near the end of the film, with Renata taped to the chair, a rear shot shows Bill reaching for a bottle of whiskey and a glass. From the rear shot you can hear him pouring whiskey into the glass. As the shot changes to frontal, he pours again into an empty glass.
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When they are removing the body from the back seat of the Mercedes, Vic says "Open the fucking door and give it a shove." When he says this you can see a red light blinking on the window of the car - an obvious camera reflection.
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