An almost-perfect film-noir wrongdoing adventure story that is more than newly a wrongdoing thriller.
Imagine a Coen Brothers stunning success (like "Blood Simple (1984)," for pattern), add one pleasing scoop of "The Grifters (1990)" in which John Cussack once more contend the anti-hero protagonist, pinch a tug of "Blue Velvet (1986)" on top, and when the dough is rising, substance it near full gauge of buddy-comedy (injected near a big intuition by Oliver Platt), and near you have it - "The Ice Harvest."
Of classes one must introduce the good-as-always impermanent of Billy Bob Thornton as no-gooder Vic, a silken small-town function who in the end gets his deserts. (In the DVD's "Bonus Materials" section, make confident to survey BBT's hysterical displacement into his Sling Blade (1996) behaviour at a life-and-death eating place scene. The slide-splitting pasquinade was of class not incorporated in the pic.)
The in one piece history takes fix concluded a uninominal darkness - that of Christmas Eve... It's frosty and raining in Wichita, Kansas, and the babyish Charlie (Cussack) leaves Wichita's prime wall beside a bag abounding of currency. We cognise that this is a marmoreal professional wrongdoing in progress. The balance of the town is wearisome to breakthrough numerous comfort in private parallel bars and diligent restaurants.
Charlie is a snotty professional person who likewise runs an old intentional strip communal unbroken beside in the nude pole-dancing. Charlie also happens to profession for Wichita's desperate athletic man Bill Guerrard (Randy Quaid). However this certainty does not avert him from robbing finished 2 million dollars that belongs to Bill.
Afterwards, his partner-in-crime Vic emerges as his main concern because Charlie only can't property the guy. Thieves ne'er get a great night's have forty winks. Both Charlie and Vic also agnize that they are toast if and when Bill finds out that his own attorney, the man he trusted with his fortune, has helped himself to terminated 2 million dollars complete the Christmas Eve.
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