The.Ice.Storm.1997.1080p.BluRay.10bit.AV1.Opus.2.0.RFranklin
The Ice Storm
DramaIndie
In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hoods are skidding out of control. Benjamin Hood reels from drink to drink, trying not to think about his trouble at the office. His wife, Elena, is reading self help books and losing patience with her husband's lies. Their son, Paul, home for the holidays, escapes to the city to pursue an alluring rich girl from his prep school. Young, budding nymphomaniac, Wendy Hood roams the neighborhood, innocently exploring liquor cabinets and lingerie drawers of her friends' parents, looking for something new. Then an ice storm hits, the worst in a century.
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The Ice Storm (1997)
Directed by Ang Lee | Screenplay by James Schamus | Based on the novel by Rick Moody
Starring Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Tobey Maguire, Christina Ricci & Elijah Wood
A chilling, masterfully nuanced psychological masterpiece chronicling the dissolution of the American suburb
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Synopsis:
In Thanksgiving weekend of 1973, within the affluent, ice-cold suburbs of New Canaan, Connecticut, the seemingly placid lives of two neighboring families, the Hoods and the Williamses, are rapidly unraveling. Ben Hood (Kevin Kline) is drifting through a desperate, joyless affair with his neighbor, Janey Williams (Sigourney Weaver), while his emotionally distant wife Elena (Joan Allen) copes with profound existential boredom. Meanwhile, their estranged teenage children explore their own premature, detached sexual and psychological boundaries: Paul Hood (Tobey Maguire) pursues a wealthy girl in a hazy Manhattan, and his dark-witted sister Wendy (Christina Ricci) plays transgressive sexual games with Janey’s sons (Elijah Wood and Adam Hann-Byrd). As an unprecedented, cataclysmic freezing rainstorm descends upon the town, locking the landscape in layers of ice, both generations converge at a swinging suburban "key party," driving their volatile domestic secrets toward a devastating, frozen breaking point.
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Release Notes:
• Video Profile: High-fidelity next-generation AV1 transcode utilizing the advanced libsvtav1 10-bit (Main@L4.0) pipeline. Sourced from the reference-grade retail Blu-ray master and mathematically cropped with absolute perfection to its native 1.85:1 flat aspect ratio (1920x1036 frame layout) running at a constant 23.976 FPS. Film Grain Synthesis (FGS) was fully activated to procedurally rebuild the native camera film layer, ensuring razor-sharp textual clarity, perfect organic skin tones, and flawless low-light performance during the film's dim, candle-lit interiors and cold outdoor storm sequences without macroblocking artifacts.
• Audio Pack: Complete multiplexed audio configuration containing two independent libopus encodings running at a transparent 48.0 kHz sampling rate:
- Track 01: Native English main theatrical feature mix encoded in pristine 2-channel Stereo. [DEFAULT]
- Track 02: Full-length English Audio Commentary track delivering deep, intimate archival production insights directly from director Ang Lee and producer/screenwriter James Schamus.
• Subtitles Pack: Fully integrated with a custom timing-aligned English text soft subtitle track (SRT / UTF-8 Plain Text), flagged as Default for fluid cross-platform media client playback compatibility out of the box.
• Chapters Menu: Includes a full, comprehensive 25-chapter structural timeline menu, mapped perfectly from the master source layout for precise scene navigation.
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Technical Specifications:
Code:
[Format]: .......... Matroska (MKV)
[File Size]: ........ 2.19 GiB
[Duration]: ......... 01:53:00
[Video Codec]: ...... AV1 / Main 10 / Film Grain Synthesis
[Resolution]: ....... 1920x1036 (1.85:1 Standard Flat - Cropped)
[Frame Rate]: ....... 23.976 fps
[Audio Track 01]: ... English / libopus 2.0 Stereo / 48.0 kHz [DEFAULT]
[Audio Track 02]: ... English / libopus 2.0 Stereo / 48.0 kHz (Ang Lee Commentary)
[Subtitle]: ......... English (SRT / UTF-8 Plain Text) [DEFAULT]
[Chapters]: ......... Included (25 Chapters mapped)
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