Grade: C+ Rating: R for language, and brief violent and sexual content Cast: Greg Kinnear, Alan Arkin, Lea Thompson, Billy Crudup Director: Jill Sprecher Running time: 1:33 Theres something about the frozen Northern Plains, filled with folksy, trusting a

"Thin Ice" is a sly neo-noir from art-house darlings Jill and Karen Sprecher, Midwest natives who are often called the Coen sisters of indie cinema. They fortify their claim to that accolade with this "Fargo"-esque crime story shot in the Twin Cities in

Jill Sprecher's "Thin Ice" is a small, likable movie about a small, not particularly likable man. Mickey (Greg Kinnear) is a struggling insurance agent in frigid Kenosha, Wis. , desperate to make a little money, put his life back together, reconnect with

Mickey Prohaska, the smooth-talking, ethically challenged insurance salesman played by Greg Kinnear in Thin Ice, could well have wandered through the hotel hallways at the annual convention that figured pivotally in last year's Cedar Rapids. Mickey would

Given the right material, you can easily imagine him doing what Jimmy Stewart did in Rear Window and Vertigo -- and conjuring up a classic cinematic perv whom we'll never be able to shake from our memories. The half-macabre, half-comic thriller Thin Ice

Greg Kinnear is one of the most effortlessly likable presences in movies today, which makes him especially good at playing creeps and oddballs. Whether it's the sex-addicted Bob Crane in the creepy-clammy biopic Auto Focus, the about-to-go-broke dad in L

There's something about the frozen Northern Plains, filled with folksy, trusting and righteous Dakotans, Minnesotans and Wisconsinites, that screams "insurance fraud" to screenwriters. The notion that there's nowhere in America quite so honest makes writ

Financially strapped small-town Wisconsin insurance agent Greg Kinnear thinks he sees a way out of his troubles: a rare violin, owned by absent-minded bachelor farmer Alan Arkin, who promises to pass along the instrument if Kinnear helps him run some err

Greg Kinnear portrays Mickey with a quiet sense of desperation. A true anti-hero, he is unapologetic and deceitful. He lies to his estranged wife Jo Ann (Lea Thompson) to try and win her back. He continually promises his receptionist (Michelle Arthur) th

Working the long con and damned near getting away with it, this kissing cousin to Fargo makes for a surprisingly entertaining February time-passer. Greg Kinnear steps out of incredulous do-gooding sad-sack mode to play Mickey Prohaska, an independent ins

Greg Kinnear finds himself on "Thin Ice" in a black-comedy mystery about insurance fraud. Greg Kinnear was born too early. He’s got nice, pleasant, all-American looks, and is very good at playing morally compromised Americans who cut a few corners and su

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I’m not sure whether Jared’s admission that he’d die for Mike D’Antoni was a sign of loyalty or incestuous creepiness. Either way, Jeffires again laid bone to grindstone in the name of coach and system, bodying up Gasol and Bynum in equal measure, snatch

Billy Crudup is not only an award-winning actor and a ladies’ man who’s romanced Mary-Louise Parker, Claire Danes and is now dating Grace Gummer, daughter of Oscar fave Meryl Streep. He’s also an accomplished. Crudup (to even his own amazeme

A good chunk of the interview hinges on something the youngest among you probably won’t remember, which is how Ethan Hawke fell from public grace after his dramatic split from then-wife Uma Thurman: “I call it the black years,” he says of the period foll

Plot: Mickey Prohaska (Greg Kinnear) is a small-time insurance agent looking for a way to jump-start his business, reunite with his estranged wife (Lea Thompson) and escape the frigid Wisconsin weather. This self-proclaimed master of spin believes that s

Greg Kinnear’s in a new movie. “Thin Ice.” A dark comedy that folks of a higher polloi than myself call “a noir thriller.” “I play a small-time opportunistic insurance salesman trying to get through life,” says Greg. “He’s doing the best he can. To jump-

“Have you ever been to Minneapolis?” Billy Crudup asked the New York Observer last night at the Soho Grand Hotel’s Club Room, where the Cinema Society & Grey Goose were hosting an after-party for their screening of the bleakly dark comedy, Thin Ice. We a

(NEW YORK) What do an insurance salesman, a prized violin, and a dead body have in common? They’re the key elements of a new dark dram-com called Thin Ice. Stars Greg Kinnear, Billy Crudup, Lea Thompson, and Alan Arkin came out for a special Cinema Socie