Iceman

Iceman

1984 · 100 min · EN · PG · 6.1 (110 votes)
Dir. Fred Schepisi · Starring Timothy Hutton, Lindsay Crouse, John Lone, Josef Sommer, David Strathairn, James Tolkan · Music Bruce Smeaton

A stone age man in a space age world... ...All he wants is a friend.

Science Fiction

A team of Arctic researchers find a 40,000 year-old man frozen in ice and bring him back to life. Anthropologist Dr. Stanley Shephard wants to befriend the Iceman and learn about the man's past while Dr. Diane Brady and her surgical team want to discover the secret that will allow man to live in a frozen state.

VIBE

A chillingly intellectual sci-fi thriller that probes the nature of humanity. It feels like a tense, quiet exploration of the unknown, where scientific curiosity clashes with primal instincts in the stark Arctic landscape.

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