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Ice Harvest, The

The cast, clearly enjoying themselves, makes the most of this nasty little modern noir, an unlikely effort from Groundhog Day director Harold Ramis. John
Cusack, once again playing a guy who seems disinterested even in his own lack of interest, stars as a midlevel mob lawyer who rips off his boss on Christmas Eve. Set among the apparently copious strip joints of Wichita, Kan., the movie depends a lot on the easy irony of gentlemen’s clubs adorned in holiday decor, but Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, Connie Nielsen and especially Oliver Platt (indulging in a movie-long bender) elevate the familiar genre material.

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