Theatrical Release Date:2004 Release Date:December 20, 2005 Availability:Usually ships in 1-2 business days Condition:BRAND NEW FACTORY SEALED!!!!
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Product Description Unexpected visitors show up at a winter cabin getaway and interrupt a weekend of male bonding. Genre: Feature Film-Drama Rating: UN Release Date: 20-DEC-2005 Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com When five old friends go to a cabin in the winter woods, they don't expect to find their buried secrets and resentments exposed, but that's what happens in Ice Men. Vaughn (Martin Cummins, Dark Angel) has taken ownership of the family cabin, but it's haunted by memories of his brutal father. He invites his three best friends to join him for a weekend, but turns sullen and resentful when his older brother Trevor (Ian Tracey, Desolation Sound) shows up as well. The friends drink, gamble, hunt for deer, play ice hockey, and wrestle with some unexpected sexual tension--and when Vaughn's ex Renee (Brandy Ledford, Andromeda) shows up, everything that's simmering bubbles over. Ice Men delves into the ways men do and don't communicate--but it doesn't delve very deep. The actors are game, but their characters are little more than bland stereotypes. Tracey, as the self-destructive and aimless older brother, has the best role and shows some raffish charisma. Brief nudity and sexual activity. --Bret Fetzer
Not What I ExpectedJanuary 4, 2008 Whoever thought that this movie should be classified gay, should have their thinking process re-examined. In my opinion, the main plot or story of this movie is very heterosexual. Perhaps because there is a bed scene between two guys classifies it as gay, but it is mostly about guys bonding and their relationships since kids.
The plot revolves about a weekend outing of five guys who grew up together somewhere in Canada. It is the 30th birthday of one of the guys. They go to a cabin in the woods, a place where they use to hang together as kids. The cabin is now owned by a very successful lawyer, who happens to have a brother who is invited by one of the other guys. This guy is a looser and hated by his brother.
There is a songwriter (whose birthday is being celebrated), a gym instructor (who is acting straight but deep inside he is not), and a failing photographer (who is open gay and lets them all know at the reunion. At least he is honest about himself.) The photographer and the gym instructor go at it one night in bed. The gym instructor resents the fact that it happened, he claims he was drunk, the other guy doesn't think so.
The story is basically about how screwed up these men lives are, whether they are successful or not. The two brothers lives are closely examined and there seems to be a lot of flashback scenes on one of them dealing with a deer hunting trip with their father, whether he was forced to kill a dove to prove to be a man.
There is a lot drinking, inner soul searching, a lot of bickering and fighting among each other. A near drowning by the gambling brother (trying to commit suicide) brings them all back together at the end of the movie.
The movie was not a total disappointment but it is not what I expected. This is a mixed movie. May be some gay men can associate with this kind of material.
Wish there were more films out of Canada like this oneNovember 22, 2007 Excellent script, dialog, cast, etc. The characters were fully believable and it's too bad the actors only had a two hour movie to explore them. Martin Cummins and David Hewlett were especially good as the up-tight, controlling Yuppie and the hapless musical screwup respectively. Maybe there'll be a sequel or something similar?
I'm just happy they set the story in Canada and then did NOT pretend it was Michigan or up-state New York.
Kudos.
howmany plots can you haveJune 30, 2007 0 out of 1 found this review helpful
if you want to see what happens when you surpress things and don't see what is realy going on then watch it if not then don't this dvd shows you how messed up some families can be and that you do not always have to do things the way they were done in the past.
These guys are friends?April 2, 2007 0 out of 3 found this review helpful
The guys in this movie are miserable. And it makes me miserable watching them.
Male High Drama In The SnowJanuary 1, 2007 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Four friends plan a trip to a cabin in the woods to bask in the glory of their friendship and do some recreational drinking, hunting, and, turns out, have a little sex. With the help from two unlikely surprise visitors: one black sheep (and very troubled) older brother and one ex.
This film keeps you guessing all the way through and you'll do a little gasping, too, I think, as the story, and the back story, reveal themselves with a finesse that I seldom see. One note, that this is hardly a "gay movie" as much as it has one gay character and, probably, one closet case.
First, the good: Good acting, marvelous sequences of interaction, both verbal and otherwise, great sets, both indoors and out, lots of affecting snow and ice and cold (reminds me of the madness of The Shining) and enough baggage, secrets, and lies to fill a great novel.
Then, the bad: Sound issues: what are they saying, exactly? ("Muddy," is what I would term the sound.) Sense of resolution: pretty much, there is none. I understand some viewers feeling cheated out of an ending, because the movie pretty much stops with very little resolved or concluded. You get the sense these men will be stuck forever in their errant paths. And that may be, actually, a logical conclusion for these characters that don't have "enough guts" to make a change.
But hope springs eternal, and I can project enough hope on these hopeless characters to carry the movie through for myself. It's a wonderfully riveting hour and forty-five minutes that you won't soon forget. You'll just have to fill in the blanks at the end for yourself. It's not a bad thing.
