Cold Fever (1995)

User Rating:

7.1/10   

Director:

Friðrik Þór Friðriksson

Writers:

Friðrik Þór Friðriksson (writer)
Jim Stark (writer)

Release Date:

5 April 1996 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Plot:

A Japanese businessman travels to Iceland and has a series of misadventures while venturing to a remote area to perform a traditional burial ritual where his parents died several years back.

Plot Keywords:

Iceland | Road Movie | Road | Fish Out Of Water | Gnome

Awards:

3 wins

Cast

Masatoshi Nagase	...	Hirata
Lili Taylor	...	Jill
Fisher Stevens	...	Jack
Gísli Halldórsson	...	Siggi
Laura Hughes	...	Laura
Seijun Suzuki	...	Hirata's Grandfather
Hiromasa Shimada	...	Suzuki
Masayuki Sasaki	...	Higashino
Taizô Mizumura	...	Hirata's father
Ichiko Takashi	...	Hirata's mother
Taeko Kato	...	Girl in TV show
Toshimori Iwaki	...	TV show commentator
Ari Matthíasson	...	Bus guide
Magnús Ólafsson	...	Taxi driver
Rúrik Haraldsson	...	Grave digger

Also Known As:

Á köldum klaka (Iceland)

Runtime:

Germany:85 min | USA:83 min

Country:

USA | Japan | Iceland | Denmark | Germany

Language:

English | Icelandic | Japanese | German

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Australia:M | France:U | Germany:12 | Iceland:L | Spain:7 | USA:Unrated

Filming Locations:

Iceland

Company:

Icicle

Get ready to laugh

The first time I saw Cold Fever was May of last year. It was in a time when I was lost in life. That's when Cold Fever was coming on HBO. I sat there for 90 mins and I found the film very funny and quite moving. The way everyone keeps asking Atsushi, "So how do you like Iceland?" or the characters he runs into. Some of them include Laura, a woman who likes to "collect" funerals or American tourists Jack and Jill, who bicker all the time because they disagree on taking a vacation to Iceland. Atsushi first finds this trip as a burden because he was looking forward to going to Hawaii to play golf. Instead, he has to go to Iceland to perform a ritual by the river where his parents drowned. Then, throughout this journey he learns more about himself. He finds some of the strangest people you will meet...a cab driver performing a strange ritual, a girl who restarts his car with a sonic scream, and my favorites, the Islandic Cowboys. When he finally gets his mission accomplished of performing the ritual, he learns that sometimes a journey can take you places that aren't on any map. That is so true. I wanted this movie so bad that I finally received it from Amazon today. It is still as great as when I saw it a year ago. Check this out because it is brilliant.