In suburban Connecticut in 1973, the Hood and Carver families try to navigate a Thanksgiving break simmering with unspoken resentment, sexual tension, and cultural confusion. A decade after JFK’s assassination, which lit the fuse for the cultural upheaval of the ’60s, Richard Nixon’s “I am not a crook” speech drones from the TV, signaling the revolution’s bitter end. With clarity, subtlety, and a dose of wicked humor, Academy Award–winning director Ang Lee renders Rick Moody’s acclaimed novel of yuppie American malaise as a trenchant, tragic cinematic portrait of lost souls. It’s also striking to see how Lee’s masterpiece predicts our own era of disaffection and regression, its stature as a great American film, made by a Taiwanese immigrant, growing with each passing Turkey Day. Featuring a tremendous cast of established actors (Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Sigourney Weaver) and rising stars (Tobey Maguire, Christina Ricci, Elijah Wood, Katie Holmes), The Ice Storm is among the finest films of the ’90s.