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Iceman

Iceman

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

19846.21h 40m

Overview

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.

Directed by Fred Schepisi
Written by Chip Proser, John Drimmer
Produced by Norman Jewison, Patrick J. Palmer
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Top Cast

Timothy Hutton

Timothy Hutton

Dr. Stanley Shephard

Lindsay Crouse

Lindsay Crouse

Dr. Diane Brady

John Lone

John Lone

Charlie

Josef Sommer

Josef Sommer

Whitman

David Strathairn

David Strathairn

Dr. Singe

James Tolkan

James Tolkan

Maynard

Danny Glover

Danny Glover

Loomis

R

Richard Monette

Hogan

A

Amelia Hall

Mabel

Philip Akin

Philip Akin

Dr. Vermeil

Themes & Keywords

coldlanguage barrierglacierarctic polar circle regionanthropologyprehistorycavemenanthropologistfrozen alivediscoveryneanderthalbiosphere

About Iceman

Iceman is a science fiction film released in 1984 exploring themes of cold, language barrier, glacier, arctic polar circle region, anthropology, prehistory. Directed by Fred Schepisi, it stars Timothy Hutton, Lindsay Crouse, John Lone. 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.

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