Article: `Ice Storm' is a keenly aware tale of some very lonely people.(ENTERTAINMENT)(Review) (movie review)

Hollywood is rediscovering the '70s. From "Boogie Nights" to the rerelease of the "Grease," you'd think the decade was one of great tragedy or discovery. But to many, they were a great big bore. Nowhere is that sentiment more pronounced, and yet entertaining, than in Ang Lee's "The Ice Storm" (5 out of five stars, rated R), a keenly aware portrayal of some very lonely people stuck in the suburbs.

Kevin Kline is wonderful as Ben Hood, a good man with absolutely no parenting skills, so tired of his upscale Connecticut rut that he's sleeping with the next-door neighbor (Sigourney Weaver) and drinking too much. His wife (Joan Allen) is also eager to break out, ...

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