He finds one when a new employee (David Harbour) tries to sell a homeowner’s policy to an eccentric old man who turns out to possess an extremely valuable violin. The old-timer is played by Alan Arkin , and the hotheaded locksmith who accidentally...

In 'Thin Ice," Kinnear plays Mickey Prohaska, an insurance salesman who stumbles across an old man (Alan Arkin) with a violin that's worth millions -- millions Mickey could use to get out of a jam, especially when a demented locksmith (Billy Crudup)...

He also happens to be more in possession of his wits than one would first ascertain. As Mickey tries to sell Gorvy a bunch of insurance he doesn’t need (as he tells a protégé, “There’s no such thing as over-insured”), a sneaky, short-fused locksmith...

It features colorfully comic performances by Greg Kinnear (in sleazeball mode), Alan Arkin (doing a variation on the windy codger he played opposite Kinnear in Little Miss Sunshine), and especially Billy Crudup, who charges the film memorably as a...

ANGELES -- "Thin Ice," starring Greg Kinnear, Billy Crudup and Alan Arkin, is a gritty little comedy of the blackest sort about a whacked-out scam that goes down during a frigid Wisconsin winter, where the wind off the lake is cold and the cons are...

But mostly, hes high-maintenance touched in the head, a bachelor farmer-hoarder in a remote farmhouse. Sisters Jill and Karen Sprecher wrote this (Jill directed) and they stack up the complications, the way Mickeys little theft and many little lies...