C H A R L E S

key party · kleptomania · water rain · falling everywhere · sleeping into · calm · like glass · so strong · landscape · upper-middle class postrevolutionary · human nature · and the ice storm · it turns out that we're not that free after all · to be replaced by darkness

Suburban Connecticut, 1973

Tobey Mguire is Paul Hood · Christina Ricci is Wendy Hood · Elijah Wood is Mikey Carver · Katie Holmes is Libbets Casey

Based upon the novel by Rick Moody, 1994

1997 · 113 minutes · DOP Frederick Elmes · The ice storm by Ang Lee

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