Movies

November, 1997

A teenybopper named Wendy (Christina Ricci) puts on a Nixon mask while fooling around with a neighborhood boy in New Canaan, Connecticut. The year is 1973, and the sexual revolution is in full swing in James Schamus' compelling adaptation of The Ice Storm (Fox Searchlights) from the novel by Rick Moody. In the suburbs, everyone is trying to get with it, especially Wendy's confused parents: Kevin Kline as Ben Hood, whose wife (Joan Allen) is reading Jonathan Livingston Seagull and sulking about B...