Mickey Prohaska (Greg Kinnear) is a small-time insurance agent looking for a way to jump-start his business, reunite with his estranged wife (Lea Thompson) and escape the frigid Wisconsin weather. This self-proclaimed master of spin believes that salesmanship is about selling a story - all he needs is a sucker willing to buy it. He hits pay dirt with a lonely retired farmer (Alan Arkin) who is sitting on something much bigger than an insurance commission. But Mickey's attempt to con the old man spins out of control when a nosy, unstable locksmith (Billy Crudup) with a volatile temper dramatically ups the stakes, trapping him in a madcap spiral of danger, deceit and double-crossing. -- (C) Official Site
Rafer Guzman / Newsday
Feb 17, 2012
If only the film were as good as Kinnear.
Kyle Smith / New York Post
Feb 17, 2012
Kinnear and director Jill Sprecher make you feel Mickey's squirming desperation, even if the ending feels like a cop-out.
Stephen Whitty / Newark Star-Ledger
Feb 17, 2012
In the end, it's a little too much like its own main character. It wants the big results. But it's not willing to put in the hard work to really earn them.
Joe Neumaier / New York Daily News
Feb 17, 2012
With a wink, a nudge and a heaping portion of Midwestern charm, "Thin Ice" reels us in.
Walter V. Addiego / San Francisco Chronicle
Feb 16, 2012
With a handful of blackly humorous jolts and some game performances by a good cast, "Thin Ice" is a watchable, if not terribly original, piece of Midwestern noir.
A.O. Scott / New York Times
Feb 16, 2012
It would like to remind you of "Fargo" - what with all the snow, the grubbiness and greed, the exaggerated accents and off-kilter rhythms - and it kind of does, but in a dispiriting way.
Betsy Sharkey / Los Angeles Times
Feb 16, 2012
There is some sinister fun to be had in watching Kinnear skating toward disaster on ice that is very thin indeed.
Steven Rea / Philadelphia Inquirer
Feb 16, 2012
Thin Ice is deeper than it first appears.
John Anderson / Wall Street Journal
Feb 16, 2012
It is Mr. Kinnear's slippery charm that keeps "Thin Ice" from sinking into the frosty Wisconsin slush toward which it seems to be heading from the start.
Colin Covert / Minneapolis Star Tribune
Feb 16, 2012
This is an icy cocktail of greed, betrayal and murder to be savored.
Bill Goodykoontz / Arizona Republic
Feb 16, 2012
Some may think of it as jayvee Coen brothers or Hitchcock -- the influences are obvious -- but Sprecher brings her own style to the movie.
Roger Moore / Dallas Morning News
Feb 16, 2012
Ann amusingly nerve-wracking trek into the snow and out onto the ice with those funny folks in the land of "you betcha."
Owen Gleiberman / Entertainment Weekly
Feb 15, 2012
Enjoyably fuses cleverness and sheer desperation.
Mark Holcomb / Village Voice
Feb 14, 2012
A surprisingly entertaining and nonderivative February time-passer, its wretched mid-winter Wisconsin setting notwithstanding.
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