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roding from marital boredom (some
into bad affairs), alternating with
scenes of the kids exploring sex, drink
and drugs.
Kevin Kline is smiling, basically
vacant Ben Hood, who thinks he has
something going with jaded Janey
Carver (Sigourney Weaver), who's
married to the mostly absent Jim
(Jamey Sheridan). Ben's wife, Elena, is
played by almost anorexically svelte
Joan Allen, who gives him the look
she gave Anthony Hopkins in Nixon
—the look more damning than
Watergate.
The adults expertly go through
Cheever-Updike paces; no doubt
they've all read the same stories in
The New Yorker. They lurch from one
moment of bad faith and forlorn
hope to another. The kids are more
enjoyable. Two of the best kid actors
who've become teens without losing
their charm (or brains), Christina
Ricci and Elijah Wood, do very gen-
uine work here, and are teamed well
with Adam Hann-Byrd and Toby
Maguire.
The Ice Storm lives in its almost
finicky accuracies. As the storm
offloads sleet and ice, the drama does-
n't exactly heat up, but it percolates
more intensely and interestingly. Ang
Lee films a "key party" as if observing
the tormented ritual of a dying tribe.
And he pulls off a sad tragedy at the
end, not a Thundering Climax — bad
luck and recklessness are involved —
but with a weight of consequence that
the story needs to be more than dab-
bling.
The Ice Storm still seems like a
watercolored seepage of lives. But the
cast is so good and the Lee/Elmes com-
mand of ambience so adroit that you
can leave rather grateful to have met
these people — these typical yet very
individual people — while feeling not a
twinge of '70s nostalgia. Rated R.
* * * 1/2
— Reviewed by David Elliott
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