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** Elena goes to an outdoor library book sale. Among the books on sale, there is Creator/JeanPaulSartre's ''Being and Nothingness'', Creator/AlbertCamus's ''Resistance, Rebellion and Death'' and Creator/EricaJong's ''Fear of Flying''. Probably not a coincidence.
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* HollywoodNewEngland: The story is set in the very rich town of New Canaan, Connecticut.
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* AutoErotica: Elena has sex with Jim in his car.
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* FilleFatale: 14-year old Wendy knows how to use her sex appeal to tease Mikey and Sandy Carver.
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* PairTheSpares: Zig Zagged. Ben cheats on his wife Elena with Janey. Later at the key party, Elena has sex with Jim, Janey's husband, but this is only after Janey stopped her relationship with Ben.
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* StepfordSuburbia: The story is set in the very rich town of New Canaan, Connecticut. However, adults and teenagers are highly dysfunctional.
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* ComingOfAgeStory: For the teenage characters. The films recounts their first experimentation with drugs, alcohol, their first crushes and sexual experiences, and their first experience with grief and death.
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** In class, Libbets and Paul study Creator/FyodorDostoevsky. Then Paul advises her to read ''Literature/TheIdiot''.
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* ThanksgivingEpisode: The film is set during Thanksgiving week, family-oriented period. It is a time of tension and internal conflict for the Hoods and the Carvers.
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* JustFriends: Paul is in love with Libbets. He starts telling her that she is very special for him. She answers that she feels the same about him: she regards him as her brother.
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* ComingOfAgeStory: For the teenage characters. The films recounts their first experimentation with drugs, alcohol, their first crushes and sexual experiences, and their first experience with grief and death.
* DeathByNewberyMedal: [[spoiler:Mikey is a special teenager who is absent-minded. Wendy has a crush on him.]] He dies in the end.
* DeathByNewberyMedal: [[spoiler:Mikey is a special teenager who is absent-minded. Wendy has a crush on him.]] He dies in the end.
* DiabolusExMachina: Even if the ice storm is showed from the beginning of the film, [[spoiler:the sudden death of Mikey, caused by the break-up of a power line]], still qualifies as one, because such a tragic consequence of the bad weather was not expectable.
* EnsembleCast: There is no protagonist, but six equally important characters: Ben, Elena, Janey, Jim, Paul, Wendy, Mikey, and Sandy.
* InterruptedIntimacy: Wendy and Mikey are experimenting sexually when Wendy's dad shows up.
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* {{Shoutout}}: In the train, Paul is reading ''Comicbook/FantasticFour'' #141 and he comments on it.
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* TheSeventies: The film is set in 1973, and the characters' fashions and conversation topics (about the Watergate scandal for example) reflect this.
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* DiscreetDrinkDisposal: Paul discreetly disposes of the sleeping pill that he pretended to be a psychotropic drug.
* HormoneAddledTeenager: The teenagers only think about sex in this film. Paul and Francis try to charm Libbets. Wendy starts to experiment sexually with both Mikey and Sandy. Besides, the adults have the same obsession.
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* SiblingTriangle: Both Mikey and his younger brother Sandy are attracted by Wendy. They both experiment sexually with her.
* SlippingAMickey: Paul pretends that sleeping pills are a psychotropic drug, so that Francis take them and falls asleep. Unfortunately, Libbets wants to take one too and she falls asleep too.
* SiblingTriangle: Both Mikey and his younger brother Sandy are attracted by Wendy. They both experiment sexually with her.
* SlippingAMickey: Paul pretends that sleeping pills are a psychotropic drug, so that Francis take them and falls asleep. Unfortunately, Libbets wants to take one too and she falls asleep too.
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* DeathOfAChild: [[spoiler:Mikey]] dies in the end. He gets electrocuted when a power line breaks up.
* HowWeGotHere: The film starts with Paul reading a comic book in a broken down train. This scene actually happens at the end of the story. Then, most of the film is a {{Flashback}}, which starts a few days earlier.
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* APartyAlsoKnownasanOrgy: PlayedForDrama, and a couple of laughs, with the key party late in the film.
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* [[APartyAlsoKnownasanOrgy A Party Also Known as an Orgy]]: PlayedForDrama, and a couple of laughs, with ActorAllusion: The "Grace" that Wendy says at Thanksgiving dinner is suspiciously similar to the key party late in speech Wednesday Addams gives before the film.Thanksgiving play in ''[[Film/TheAddamsFamily Addams Family Values]]''. Both characters are played by Creator/ChristinaRicci.
* APartyAlsoKnownasanOrgy: PlayedForDrama, and a couple of laughs, with the key party late in the film.
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''The Ice Storm'' is a 1997 drama directed by Creator/AngLee and starring Creator/KevinKline, Joan Allen, Creator/SigourneyWeaver, Creator/TobeyMaguire, Creator/ChristinaRicci, Creator/ElijahWood, and Katie Holmes.Creator/KatieHolmes.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: Completely and utterly averted. The movie was filmed in exactly the same town it is set in: New Canaan, Connecticut.
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* TheFilmOfTheBook: Based on a highly-regardded 1994 novel of the same name by Rick Moody.
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* HollywoodNerd: Paul, who is a big ''Comicbook/FantasticFour'' fan, and his narration discusses one specific issue from TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks ("#141, published in November of 1973").
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* HostileWeather: The ice storm that hits the town near the end of the film.
* PlayingDoctor: Wendy will show Sandy hers if he shows her his.
* SnowMeansDeath: More precisely, the ice storm means death. While everything may look beautiful covered in ice, in reality ice-covered roads, train tracks, and electrical wires can all be extremely dangerous.
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* APartyAlsoKnownasanOrgy: PlayedForDrama with the key party late in the film.
* TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks: Paul is a big ''Comicbook/FantasticFour'' fan, and his narration discusses one specific issue ("#141, published in November of 1973").
* ChekhovsGun: The Hoods and the Carvers discuss a shocking new type of party called a "key party".
* NixonMask: Wendy dons one while playing with Mikey.
* TheSeventies: The film is set in 1973, and the characters' fashions and conversation topics reflect this.
* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Ben and Elena's reaction when they learn their son Paul is interested in a girl named Libbets.
* YourCheatingHeart: Ben on Elena with Janey, and Janey on Jim with Ben.
* TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks: Paul is a big ''Comicbook/FantasticFour'' fan, and his narration discusses one specific issue ("#141, published in November of 1973").
* ChekhovsGun: The Hoods and the Carvers discuss a shocking new type of party called a "key party".
* NixonMask: Wendy dons one while playing with Mikey.
* TheSeventies: The film is set in 1973, and the characters' fashions and conversation topics reflect this.
* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Ben and Elena's reaction when they learn their son Paul is interested in a girl named Libbets.
* YourCheatingHeart: Ben on Elena with Janey, and Janey on Jim with Ben.
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''The Ice Storm'' is a 1997 drama directed by Creator/AngLee and starring Creator/KevinKline, Joan Allen, Creator/SigourneyWeaver, Creator/TobeyMaguire, Creator/ChristinaRicci, Creator/ElijahWood, and Katie Holmes.
The film is set in the wealthy suburb of New Canaan, Connecticut, during [[UsefulNotes/ThanksgivingDay Thanksgiving week]] (late November) of 1973, and chronicles the interactions and stresses between two dysfunctional families. In the days leading up to Thanksgiving, the adults seek escapism through alcohol, infidelity, and swingers parties, while the teenage children experiment with drugs and sex.
In the film, Ben Hood (Kline) is dissatisfied with his job in New York City and is cheating on his wife Elena (Allen) with their neighbor Janey Carver (Weaver), who is herself bored with her marriage to Jim, who is frequently out of town on business trips. Elena has also grown bored with her marriage to Ben and is looking for new experiences. The Hoods and the Carvers each have two adolescent children. The Hoods have 16-year-old Paul (Maguire) and 14-year old Wendy (Ricci), while the Carvers have Mikey (Wood) and his younger brother Sandy. Paul, who attends a boarding school in New York City, is a shy but amiable comic-book nerd who is trying drugs and trying to get into the pants of his pretty classmate Libbets Casey (Holmes). Wendy is politically conscious and starting to experiment sexually with both Mikey and Sandy. Mikey is lonely but willing to play along with Wendy's sexual games. Sandy is also attracted to Wendy, and likes to blow things up with firecrackers. Shortly after the holiday, the titular ice storm hits the region and brings a lot of the characters' issues to a climax.
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The film is set in the wealthy suburb of New Canaan, Connecticut, during [[UsefulNotes/ThanksgivingDay Thanksgiving week]] (late November) of 1973, and chronicles the interactions and stresses between two dysfunctional families. In the days leading up to Thanksgiving, the adults seek escapism through alcohol, infidelity, and swingers parties, while the teenage children experiment with drugs and sex.
In the film, Ben Hood (Kline) is dissatisfied with his job in New York City and is cheating on his wife Elena (Allen) with their neighbor Janey Carver (Weaver), who is herself bored with her marriage to Jim, who is frequently out of town on business trips. Elena has also grown bored with her marriage to Ben and is looking for new experiences. The Hoods and the Carvers each have two adolescent children. The Hoods have 16-year-old Paul (Maguire) and 14-year old Wendy (Ricci), while the Carvers have Mikey (Wood) and his younger brother Sandy. Paul, who attends a boarding school in New York City, is a shy but amiable comic-book nerd who is trying drugs and trying to get into the pants of his pretty classmate Libbets Casey (Holmes). Wendy is politically conscious and starting to experiment sexually with both Mikey and Sandy. Mikey is lonely but willing to play along with Wendy's sexual games. Sandy is also attracted to Wendy, and likes to blow things up with firecrackers. Shortly after the holiday, the titular ice storm hits the region and brings a lot of the characters' issues to a climax.
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