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Trailer Trash: Greg Kinnear and Billy Crudup Are on Thin Ice

By Cindy Davis | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (7)

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Call me a bitch and do your best triple axel, but I’m just not getting that groovy feeling of anticipation from this Thin Ice trailer. The black comedy, directed by Jill Sprecher (Clockwatchers, Thirteen Conversations About One Thing), does boast a great trio of actors (Greg Kinnear, Billy Crudup and Alan Arkin) who have the potential to take us on a delightfully dark ride, but whomever edited together this buch of footage did a lousy job of selling it. Described as a modern noir, Thin Ice follows bullshit artist/insurance salesman (same difference) Mickey Prohaska (Kinnear), down on his luck and on the verge of pulling a potentially lucrative scam on an elderly,retired man (Arkin). As with all “great” plans, something goes awry—in the form of an unstable ex-con/locksmith (Crudup)—and everything spirals out of control, like an ill-timed salchow take-off. The good news is that the film earned positive reviews at Sundance, so even though the trailer sucks, it might be worth checking out.


Both the poster and the premise are a little Fargoy; there’s nothing so bad about that.

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Thin Ice also stars Lea Thompson, David Harbour and Bob Balaban; it opens in theaters February 17, 2012.


As a young girl, Cindy Davis dreamed of being an ice skater but alas, she is an ungraceful klutz.









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Comments

I think I'd rather just watch Fargo.

Lea Thompson? I forgot she existed.

Posted by: sunny at January 8, 2012 2:11 PM

Love me some Billy Crudup.

This reminds me of The Ice Harvest.

Posted by: grace b at January 8, 2012 3:21 PM

Billy Crudupp looks like Ty Burrell in this.

Posted by: jim of the lower case at January 8, 2012 5:19 PM

"...a little Fargoy"

I'm feeling like there's an old Catskills joke here somewhere.

The trailer looked like it did a fine job of hinting at, or flat out giving away every major plot point. The cherry on that shit sundae was the tag line "Have An Ice Day". Not a good sign if they're pulling a quote from Batman & Robin.

Posted by: Groundloop at January 8, 2012 5:22 PM

Kinnear just looks more and more worried. What is going on in that polygonal little head of his?

Also I have it on good authority that the Balaban will destroy us all.

Maybe that's it. Maybe Kinnear knows how that will happen, but he can't tell us because if he did the Balaban would unhinge his lower jaw and swallow his soul whole. But then you'd assume that the fate that awaits us wouldn't be as bad as that. Unless Kinnear has a deal with the Balaban that guarantees him some sort of clemency? But then how the fuck did Kinnear find out in the first place?! CRUDUUUUUUUUPPPP!!!

Posted by: zeke the pig at January 9, 2012 7:03 AM

The Mayans completely saw the Balaban coming - hence the prophecies.

Posted by: cinekat at January 9, 2012 8:55 AM

If they saw the Balaban coming then no wonder they went extinct.

Did you know that Ragnarok is also an anagram of Balaban?

And that Bob Balaban is an anagram of Holy Fuck It's The Worst Possible Kind Of Ragnarok?

Posted by: zeke the pig at January 9, 2012 9:21 AM