Cold Fever (1995)
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90% of critics liked it
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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 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 internationally produced very funny road movie chronicles his many misadventures that begin when he disembarks from his plane in the midst of a blizzard and ends up boarding the wrong bus. The bus takes him to some popular hot springs and he must take a taxi back to Reykjavik. He doesn't make it back, because the driver needed to stop in his hometown and participate in a nativity pageant. This forces poor Hirata to bum a ride on a truck. During the journey, he meets a broad assortment of eccentric and bizarre characters ranging from a woman with a thing about photographing funerals, an aspiring Bonnie and Clyde, and a band of Icelandic cowboys. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Directed By
- Fridrik Thor Fridriksson
- Written By
- Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, Jim Stark
- Genres
- Drama, Art House & International, Comedy
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Apr 5, 1996 Wide
Critic Reviews
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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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Cast
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Masatoshi Nagase
as Atsushi Hirata
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Lili Taylor
as Jill
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Fisher Stevens
as Jack
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Gísli Halldórsson
as Siggi
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Laura Leigh Hughes
as Laura
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Seijun Suzuki
as Grandfather
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Katrin Olafsdottir
as Psychic Girl
