Not quite CEvans related but Winona Ryder asked for her copy of the script to only have her parts in it, thus truely being in the dark about what Kuklinski actually did.
"When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.” —Eckhart Tolle
Not quite CEvans related but Winona Ryder asked for her copy of the script to only have her parts in it, thus truely being in the dark about what Kuklinski actually did.
Really? Impressive.
"The movie came to life every time you were on the screen." Stan Lee to Chris Evans.
Background Info and resources for further reading.
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.
Plot 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.
During the killing of Marty Freeman (James Franco) for using DeMeo's name too freely in his business dealings, Kuklinski meets Robert Pronge (Chris Evans), another hitman for the mob. After DeMeo puts Kuklinski on suspension for allowing a teenage girl to live after witnessing a hit (Kuklinski reveals that he never kills children), he teams up with Pronge, who is a freelancer, and splits the contract payments with him in return for helping him on contract assassinations for DeMeo's boss Leo Marks (Robert Davi).
During his suspension, Kuklinski begins to show more of his anger and rage to the point of destroying his own kitchen while having an argument with Deborah. Kuklinski also shows paranoia when he looks at a moving ice cream truck and instantly thought of Pronge. While distracted Kuklinski crashes his car into another vehicle, nearly killing his family, who are in the car with him. The man he hit, who was injured in the crash, gets out of his car and insults Kuklinski and his family, which causes Kuklinski to enter such a raging fit that he then initiates a high speed chase after the man through three neighborhoods, again putting his family in danger.
DeMeo eventually finds out about all of this unauthorized employment after Kuklinski murders one of his associates on Leo's orders, and threatens Kuklinski at the same time that he severs all ties with him. Meanwhile, Kuklinski attempts to collect his $50,000 pay for the hit from Leo, but is denied the payment, prompting him to kill the mobster when he threatens his family.
Kuklinski's daughter is later seriously injured by a hit-and-run car accident. Kuklinski suspects Pronge and shoots him in a public park.
Following an undercover sting operation, Kuklinski is arrested in the year 1986. Neither his wife nor his daughters had ever suspected him of being a cold-blooded killer. Kuklinski admitted to having committed over 100 vicious murders, both for personal reasons and for profit, in his 22-year career. After being sentenced to two life terms in prison he never saw his wife and daughters again. (In real life, Barabara and his daughters visited him in the hospital shortly before he died)
As the movie ends, Kuklinski's only regret was hurting his family for the sins that he did and the dangers he put his family in. In 2006, he died in a prison hospital, from a rare inflammatory disease, just before he was to testify against a Gambino crime family underboss.
Michael Shannon as Richard Kuklinski Winona Ryder as Deborah Kuklinski Chris Evans asRobert 'Mr. Freezy' Pronge (based on Robert "Mister Softee" Pronge) Ray Liotta as Roy DeMeo James Franco as Marty Freeman David Schwimmer as Josh Rosenthal Stephen Dorff as Joseph Kuklinski Erin Cummings as Ellen Robert Davi as Leonard Marks Weronika Rosati as Livi John Ventimiglia as Mickey Scicoli Christa Campbell as Adele Jay Giannone as Dominick Provenzano Vincent Fuentes as JC Ashlynn Ross as Alex Steven Hinckley as Prison Guard
The Iceman screened out of competition at the 69th Venice International Film Festival in August 2012.The film screened at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival in September that year. It was released in the United States on May 3, 2013.
I lent my bluray of this to my dad for his lunchtime movie club at work recently. As far as I can tell he and his colleagues enjoyed it, although all he could really say about it was "oh, and that guy was in it!"
Like getting blood out of a stone he is!
Me: "Chris Evans, Captain America? " Dad: "no...that guy, ummmm..." Me: "Ray Liotta, he's pretty good right? " Dad: "nah, him off that show..." Me: "...show...?" Dad: "...that one you watch, supposed to be funny." Me: "...." Dad: "Dave...thingy..." Me: "Franco?..It's James, his brother, in this one" Dad: "who? No from Friends!" Me: "David Schwimmer? That's what you got from this intense film about a contract killer who manages to keep his family in the dark about the reality of his work? Ross from Friends is in it?" Dad : "...yep..." Me: " I've gotta stop lending you movies" *facepalm*
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