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The Ice Harvest (2005)

★ 5.9 · 333 ratings on TMDB

Thick Thieves. Thin Ice.

The Ice Harvest poster★ 5.9

A shady lawyer attempts a Christmas Eve crime, hoping to swindle the local mob out of some money. But his partner, a strip club owner, might have different plans for the cash.

DirectorHarold Ramis
CastBilly Bob Thornton, Connie Nielsen, David Pasquesi, John Cusack, Lara Phillips, Mike Starr
GenresComedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
The emergence reading

The Ice Harvest keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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