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...TV’s “The West Wing”) slapstick drollery, nothing can save the hackneyed storyline of this too-dark comedy. Based on the novel by Scott Phillips and adapted for the screen by Richard Russo (“Twilight”) and Robert Benton (“Superman”), “The Ice Harvest” reminds viewers of a darker “Grosse Pointe Blank.” Every 10 seconds, someone in Cusack’s latest film is shot or bludgeoned to death, with none of the gory details...
...MOVIE IS BETTER: For a flick about small-time crooks, Ice Harvest packs some pretty big guns. The script is by Pulitzer prizewinning novelist Richard Russo (Empire Falls) and two-time Oscar-winning screenwriter Robert Benton (Kramer vs. Kramer, Places in the Heart). They smoothed out and sped up the book's curlicue plot, ratcheted down the raunch, added a couple of drama-class monologues and sweetened the book's rather heartless surprise ending...
...road that they can’t follow you down,” says Cusack. “It’s a very free way to work.”HAZY GENRE BLENDINGThe starting point for the film was the script, written by Richard Russo and Robert Benton, and adapted from a Scott Phillips novel. It’s a nasty, biting little bugger, a film noir bejeweled with shards of sharp black comedy. Its seedy characters—linked together through mob ties—mingle aimlessly in squalid strip clubs and vast stretches of barren glacial suburbia...
Shocking and erotic were perhaps the two words dearest to the heart of Kenneth Tynan, the late English critic who conceived the idea for the show. "He said that we could write about anything in the world within the realm of sexuality," says Benton's Calcutta partner, David Newman. "The only other caveat he had was that our piece should have absolutely no redeeming social value...
...story on Louisville as the No. 1 basketball team [SPORT, April 14] deserves consideration for the Hall of Fame of sportswriting. Your report caught the essence of the team, as well as the emotions surrounding basketball in Kentucky. Richard L. Coe Benton...