The Ice Harvest (2005) on Netflix
On Christmas Eve in Wichita, lawyer Charlie Arglist and Vic Cavanaugh have stolen $2 million from mobster Bill Guerrard. Ice stalls the getaway, and Charlie wants to leave with Renata Crest.
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Plot summary
Charlie Arglist, a lawyer who works for the sleazy businesses of Wichita, Kansas, has spent Christmas Eve getting ready to leave town with $2 million that he and Vic Cavanaugh stole from their boss, the mobster Bill Guerrard. An ice storm has left the roads too dangerous to travel, so the two men wait. Charlie goes to the Sweet Cage, the strip club Vic owns and Renata Crest runs, a woman he has long wanted. He hints to her about the money, and she proposes that they leave together. She also asks him to take a photograph from a safe at another of Vic's clubs, a picture of a local politician that she means to use as leverage to keep the city from closing her club.
Cast
- Bill Nobleas Culligan
- Brad Smithas Ronny
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Ice Harvest (2005)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Harold Ramis liked Richard Russo and Robert Benton's script so much that he agreed to direct the film for eighty per cent less than his usual fee.
- Ramis wanted his old collaborator Bill Murray for the mobster Bill Guerrard and tried to talk him into it, but Murray would not budge from a falling out between the two men that had already lasted a decade.
- Connie Nielsen was not the first choice for the strip-club manager Renata. Monica Bellucci had been set for the part and had to leave the production because she was pregnant.
- Bad weather nearly forced Ramis to shut the production down for a day, but he pushed on because he did not want to break his record of never having lost a shooting day.
