Top billed cast

1. 

   Kevin Kline

   Ben Hood

2. 

   Joan Allen

   Elena Hood

3. 

   Sigourney Weaver

   Janey Carver

4. 

   Jamey Sheridan

   Jim Carver

5. 

   Christina Ricci

   Wendy Hood

6. 

   Tobey Maguire

   Paul Hood

7. 

   Elijah Wood

   Mikey Carver

8. 

   Adam Hann-Byrd

   Sandy Carver

9. 

   Michael Cumpsty

   Philip Edwards

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2025-12-19

With both Thanksgiving and an ice storm approaching their early 70s Connecticut town, the “Hood” and “Carver” families are congregating for their celebrations in which you sense you might actually be safer if you were the turkey. We first meet the former family where dad “Ben” (Kevin Kline) is pretty much only going through the motions in his marriage to “Elena” (Joan Chen). Their loved up teenage son “Paul” (Tobey Maguire) has arrived from college in New York, and then there is daughter “Wendy” (Christina Ricci). The latter lot appear just as messy as “Jim” (Jamey ...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$18,000,000.00

Revenue
$16,000,000.00

Keywords

• infidelity
• husband wife relationship
• based on novel or book
• 1970s
• thanksgiving
• dysfunctional family
• connecticut
• family relationships
• ice storm
• suburbia
• neighbor
• swinger
• polyamory
• sexual awakening
• marital crisis
• party
• malaise