{"id":85709,"date":"2012-02-22T21:09:58","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T04:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=85709"},"modified":"2012-02-22T21:09:58","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T04:09:58","slug":"thin-ice-movie-review-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2012\/02\/22\/thin-ice-movie-review-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Thin Ice Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Title: Thin Ice<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director: Jill Sprecher<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Starring: Greg Kinnear, Alan Arkin, Billy Crudup, Lea Thompson, Bob Balaban, David Harbour<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A kind of mash-up, slightly more poker-faced\u00a0version of some of the same snowy ethical dilemmas faced in &#8220;A Simple Plan,&#8221; &#8220;Fargo&#8221; and &#8220;The Ice Harvest,&#8221; crime dramedy &#8220;Thin Ice&#8221; delivers a winning, if rather drolly underplayed, black comedy that tosses its protagonist into a pit of moral quicksand, and then chronicles his flailing attempts to extricate himself.<\/p>\n<p>Mickey Prohaska\u00a0(Greg Kinnear) is\u00a0a small-time Wisconsin insurance salesman whose ability to coast on his looks and smooth-talking charisma seems to have finally hit an end. With his business struggling and attempts at reconnecting with his estranged wife Jo Ann (Lea Thompson) floundering, Mickey is stuck in a rut. At a regional insurance conference, Mickey runs into\u00a0Bob Egan (David Harbour), a wet-behind-the-ears\u00a0would-be agent\u00a0looking to make a start in the industry for his new family. Sensing a source of valuable income, Mickey takes Bob as a mentee, and starts showing him the ropes. When nice-guy Bob\u00a0declines to put the hard sell on\u00a0eccentric\u00a0retired farmer\u00a0Gorvy Hauer (Alan Arkin, in a great supporting performance), peddling him coverage he doesn&#8217;t need, Mickey later returns to seal the deal (and the commission) himself.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s here that Mickey&#8217;s appetites begin to come into play, and place him in increasingly compromised situations. When he finds out that Gorvy is in possession of a violin appraised at many thousands of dollars,\u00a0Mickey befriends him and offers him a for-trade swap. After that plan unravels,\u00a0Mickey even works up a duplicate to switch out and fool Gorvy. But the\u00a0locksmith, Randy (Billy Crudup), that Mickey cons\u00a0into letting him back into Gorvy&#8217;s place turns violent, and dramatically ups the stakes.<\/p>\n<p>A selection at last year&#8217;s Sundance Film Festival, where it originally played as &#8220;The Convincer,&#8221; &#8220;Thin Ice&#8221; could have benefited from some tightened screws and an increased sense of ratcheted up tension. Director Jill Sprecher (&#8220;Clockwatchers,&#8221; &#8220;Thirteen Conversations About One Thing&#8221;), who co-wrote the script with her sister Karen, delivers plotlines that satisfyingly thicken &#8212; like a porridge left out to cool &#8212;\u00a0and wrings\u00a0a delicious, squirming\u00a0sense of\u00a0uneasy fun out of Mickey&#8217;s worsening predicament. But in focusing on working in ADR inclusions to highlight and underscore various power-play dynamics between the players, Sprecher misses a chance to just let Kinnear cut loose and go insane &#8212; to turn\u00a0Mickey&#8217;s sputtering disbelief to a full boil of righteous rage, and scald the audience.<\/p>\n<p>Kinnear has always, for better or worse, been a bit trapped by those throwback matinee idol looks of his (one reason he was so good as Bob Crane), which are a good fit for a guy like Mickey, who is smart enough to have gotten to the the level of achievement he&#8217;s reached, but also myopic enough to think no one could ever really be much slicker than he. Coming off as Kevin Spacey by way of John Boehner, Kinnear does a bang-up job of playing the bewildered Everyman, while Crudup &#8212; an underappreciated actor with the ability to impress his will upon scenes in sly, savvy ways &#8212; gets to play a bit wild and crazy. 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