Indie director Jill Sprecher returns after more than a decade with
Thin Ice, a low-key thriller that combines elements of the Coen brothers, David Mamet, and Alfred Hitchcock with her own humanistic view of quirky people.
The movie stars Greg Kinnear as Wisconsinite Mickey Prohaska, an ethically dubious insurance salesman whose particular mix of egotism and loserdom is encapsulated in his license plate, which reads MVP2 (he explains that they are his initials, but obviously somebody else got there first). The picture opens with him at an industry convention where he meets Bob Egan (David Harbour), an earnest-looking salesman who talks his way into a job...
Released:
2010
Rated:
R
Length:
109 mins