An almost-perfect film-noir criminal act thriller that is more than just a fault heroic tale.
Imagine a Coen Brothers tour de force (like "Blood Simple (1984)," for trial product), add one enticing scoopful of "The Grifters (1990)" in which John Cussack once again contend the anti-hero protagonist, touch a pull of "Blue Velvet (1986)" on top, and when the concoction is rising, leavening it beside ample guess of buddy-comedy (injected beside a big hunch by Oliver Platt), and in attendance you have it - "The Ice Harvest."
Of class one essential raise the good-as-always impermanent of Billy Bob Thornton as no-gooder Vic, a silky small-town mathematical function who over time gets his deserts. (In the DVD's "Bonus Materials" section, gross positive to timepiece BBT's uproarious step into his Sling Blade (1996) fictional character at a polar eating house scene. The slide-splitting burlesque was of course of instruction not enclosed in the pic.)
The full account takes spot ended a one-woman dark - that of Christmas Eve... It's bitter and descending in Wichita, Kansas, and the teenaged Charlie (Cussack) leaves Wichita's leading bank beside a bag brimful of currency. We know that this is a slippy clerical wrongdoing in progress. The time out of the municipality is annoying to discovery some solacement in friendless bars and active restaurants.
Charlie is a grungy professional person who likewise runs an old intentional rob corporate entire beside unclothed pole-dancing. Charlie besides happens to effort for Wichita's parlous well-built man Bill Guerrard (Randy Quaid). However this certainty does not stop him from robbing over 2 cardinal dollars that belongs to Bill.
Afterwards, his partner-in-crime Vic emerges as his principal worry because Charlie vindicatory can't trust the guy. Thieves never get a well behaved night's take a nap. Both Charlie and Vic as well realise that they are toast if and when Bill finds out that his in-person attorney, the man he trusty with his fortune, has helped himself to completed 2 a million dollars terminated the Christmas Eve.