Title: Historically inaccurate
Product review: I used to love this movie. I think all of the acting is excellent, and that it perfectly portrays the suburban ennui of Connecticut in the 1970s that, albeit in a different form, still exists to this day. My complaint is this: I searched for "weather in New Canaan, Connecticut, November 23, 1973" in Wolfram Alpha recently (Novemebr 23 being the date of the titular ice storm) and the result I got was -- are you ready for this? -- "temperature average: 48 F, conditions: fog, overcast, cloudy, partly cloudy, few clouds, clear." That, my friends, is a far cry from an ice storm. It is sad to see a movie go so far in recreating a historical period -- costumes, Watergate hearings, houses, even waterbeds -- and get this one crucial piece so very wrong. For shame, Rick Moody and Ang Lee!
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