The Ice Storm
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- This article is about a novel. For the film based on this novel see The Ice Storm (film)
The Ice Storm is a novel by Rick Moody published in 1994 and subsequently adapted as a dramatic 1997 film directed by Ang Lee.
Set during Thanksgiving, 1973, The Ice Storm tells of two suburban Connecticut families, the Hoods and the Carvers, and the difficulties they have dealing with the tumultuous political and social climate of the day. The story focuses on a brief period of time when a major ice storm hits their town of New Canaan, just as both families are melting down from the parents' alcoholism, escapism and adultery, and their children's sexual experimentation. Much of the action culminates at a key party, which all of the adults in the film attend, and which ultimately forces the Carvers and Hoods to reexamine their priorities and the directions of their lives.
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