The Iceman (film)
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| Directed by | Ariel Vromen |
| Produced by | Ariel Vromen Ehud Bleiberg Avi Lerner |
| Screenplay by | Ariel Vromen Morgan Land |
| Based on |
The Iceman: The True Story of a Cold-Blooded Killer by Philip Carlo |
| Starring |
Michael Shannon Winona Ryder James Franco Ray Liotta Chris Evans |
| Music by | Haim Mazar |
| Cinematography | Bobby Bukowski |
| Edited by | Danny Rafic |
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Bleiberg Entertainment
Rabbit Bandini Productions |
| Distributed by | Millennium Entertainment |
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Running time
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105 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $10 million |
| Box office | $4.4 million |
The Iceman is an American biography crime thriller film based on the true story of longtime notorious hitman Richard Kuklinski. Released in 2012 at the Venice Film Festival, the film was directed by Ariel Vromen, and stars Michael Shannon as Kuklinski, Winona Ryder, Chris Evans, and Ray Liotta.
The Iceman showed at the 2012 Telluride Film Festival and the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival before receiving a limited release in cinemas in the United States on May 3, 2013. It expanded into more cinemas in the USA on May 17. It was released to DVD on September 3.
In the 1960s, Richard Kuklinski (Michael Shannon) marries Deborah (Winona Ryder) and the couple have two daughters. Kuklinski keeps secrets from his family. He works dubbing pornographic films which he then supplies to a mob operated syndicate, but he tells his family that he dubs Disney cartoons. Kuklinski is also deeply troubled. The subject of brutal beatings he received as a boy from his immigrant Polish father, Kuklinski is an emotionally disturbed and intensely violent man. In one instance a man insults him after a game of pool. Kuklinski follows the man to his car and murders him by quickly slashing his throat.
Another secret Kuklinski keeps is his younger brother Joseph (Stephen Dorff) is serving a life sentence for raping and murdering a twelve-year-old girl. Roy DeMeo (Ray Liotta), a powerful mob boss, shuts down the pornographic film business in which Kuklinski was involved and brings him on board to work as a contract killer after Kuklinski passes an impromptu audition which was killing a homeless man with Roy's gun.
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