ICE-NINE or When Bad Weather Happens to Good People
At once a character study, suspense thriller, and rustic adventure,
"Ice-Nine" pits two hapless New Yorkers against an unfathomable Catskills
blizzard, a frozen corpse, menacing locals, and their own unresolved pasts.
JACK and WILL are looking for a simple weekend escape from their muddled New
York routine but find that life is not so easy in the quiet country. Will is
troubled by a sense of displacement from his rural Minnesota
legacy while Jack suffers from his inability to feel, when they encounter a subtly unnerving series of obstacles in their quest for leisure. A vague sense of unease becomes concrete terror when an impossible Easter Sunday blizzard dumps three feet of snow in their path and they literally stumble upon a dead body - a frozen hand thrusting out of the snow, clutching an empty bottle of whiskey.
In the intensity that follows, they get closer to the source of the mystery.
Will overcomes his fear of the future and discovers a hero inside himself,
while Jack endures a visceral reminder of his proximity to real experience.
They are changed forever from the ordeal, as is the life of an enigmatic
beauty, KATE, who may or may not be at the center of the mystery. In the
end, they are none the wiser, and yet, both on higher ground.
"Ice-Nine" was recently honored with the IFP North's Minnesota Independent
Film Fund Award. This $25,000 grant will be used for the further screenplay
development, as well as some of the film's preliminary production expenses.
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