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The Ice House - Premium Cooler for Camping, Picnics & Outdoor Adventures - Keep Drinks Cold for Hours
The Ice House - Premium Cooler for Camping, Picnics & Outdoor Adventures - Keep Drinks Cold for Hours

The Ice House - Premium Cooler for Camping, Picnics & Outdoor Adventures - Keep Drinks Cold for Hours

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Product Description Amazon.com Years before he became James Bond, Daniel Craig played a cynical Scottish detective in this BBC adaptation of the Minette Walters bestseller. Craig's Sergeant McLoughlin is still smarting from the dissolution of his marriage when a handyman discovers a badly decomposed body in the Maybury family's abandoned ice house. McLoughlin's superior, Chief Inspector Walsh (Corin Redgrave with ever-present sneer), suspects it may be David Maybury, whose disappearance he investigated nine years ago. Now Maybury's wife, Phoebe (Penny Downie), shares their Hampshire mansion with two women who are believed to be lesbians, Diana Goode (Frances Barber) and Anne Cattrell (Kitty Aldridge), who takes an immediate dislike to McLoughlin, dismissing him as a "sanctimonious little git," but their encounters suggest a certain sexual attraction on his part. As the detectives gather information about Phoebe, her friends, and her children, Jane (Alexandra Milman) and Jon (Cloud Atlas's James D'Arcy), everyone emerges as a potential suspect--even Phillips (Dave Hill), the handyman. Though her husband had a reputation for abuse, Phoebe's small-minded, homophobic neighbors believe she injured herself to make him look bad, but the truth is far trickier. If his accent can be inconsistent, Craig is otherwise effective, an attribute that extends to the rest of the fine cast. With a smattering of profanity and disturbing imagery, The Ice House is grittier than your average made-for-TV mystery; more David Fincher than Agatha Christie. The two-part movie comes complete with a profile of Walters, who was working on her seventh novel at the time. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

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I first watched this film with my brother when it first aired on PBS. Good Lord, that long ago really?!He wasn't into Mystery! mysteries as much as I was. Still, he sat through the entire thing with me after flipping through our other three channels looking for something interesting on a Sunday evening. At one point I looked over at him and said, "You can change it... if you want to...." (and not really meaning it). He looked back and shook his head, frowning as if I was off my rocker. So we watched it. A week later, for the second half, we looked at each other and said, "Mystery!" and bolted for the basement to watch the remainder.Oh, review the film! Right, I'm on it. I remember being quite thrilled with such a wonderfully different storyline. Of course at the time (seven, eight years ago now) I wasn't interested in acting abilities or such, but I was and still am a writer and I knew this was Good Stuff. Having recently viewed it, I know the acting was superb and the writing Good Stuff.Years passed. I fondly remembered a story that involved a body found in an ice house, and three women who were all enigma and no answers, especially as to the disappearance of one of the women's husband a decade before. One day, I said to my brother, "Hey, what was the name of that one movie, with the three women, and the body found in the ice house?""The Ice House.""Right." I considered buying it, but at the time it was twenty-eight dollars not including shipping, and I was cheapo. I bought it about a week ago, at a reduced price of eighteen or something, with shipping twenty-three. Not such savings, but I made the delight of watching the film that much sweeter because I could now only barely remember details about it. One thing I knew - I knew it was Good Stuff.Too bad it's not on DVD.