Trivia for
The Ice Storm (1997) More at IMDbPro »

• To prepare for the film, Ang Lee let the cast members study stacks of magazine cutouts from the early 1970s.
  
  
• When asked to say grace, Christina Ricci goes into a tirade about the cruelty that is celebrated as Thanksgiving. She makes a similar speech when Wednesday, her character in Addams Family Values (1993), hijacks the camp Thanksgiving pageant. Both movies star Ricci and David Krumholtz.
  
  
• Although events in the film occur in November, filming actually began in the late spring. This is evidenced by an abundance of greenery in the exterior shots.
  
  
• In the novel The Ice Storm, Rick Moody writes "And sometimes Paul himself was Ben Grimm, and sometimes he was Peter Parker, a.k.a. the Spider-Man" Ironically, Tobey Maguire plays both Paul and Peter Parker in the film versions.
  
  
• Film debut of Katie Holmes.
  
  
• The book Janey is reading while sitting on the water bed is "When She Was Good" by Philip Roth.
  
  
• Rick Moody, the author of the novel was so pleased with the film he sobbed through the end credits.
  
  

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