Cold Fever

Cold Fever (1995)

  • 90% of critics liked it
    (10 reviews)

  • 77% of users liked it
    (753 ratings)

All poor Atsushi Hirata really wants is to leave the cold Japanese winter and take a week's vacation in warm Hawaii. Unfortunately, he ends up forced to honor tradition and travel to even more frigid Iceland to pay tribute to his late parents who died there seven years before. This… More

Unrated,
Directed By
Written By
Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, Jim Stark
Genres
Drama, Art House & International, Comedy
In Theaters
Apr 5, 1996 Wide

Critic Reviews

  • Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice

    An fascinating film that is both a valentine to the charms of Iceland and a flinty meditation on a young man's quest to bestow a blessing on the parents he took for granted.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Anthony L


    This is a very quirky film, a word I hate to use but it seems truly apt in describing this movie. I liked it very much, it?s quite beautiful at times and there certainly isn't another film like it!

  • Lesley N


    Japanese businessman reluctantly travels through wintery Iceland to perform burial ceremony for dead parents. Its a good premise - road rip with extra Icelandic-Japanese culture clash- the scenery is stunning, the lead actor plays a nice mixture of confusion and adaption, and… More

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