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Cold Fever
1995 - NR - 1:25
Fox Lorber Home Video
Comedy
Directed by Fridrik Thor Fridriksson
In English, Japanese and Icelandic with English subtitles
Starring:
Masatoshi Nagase
Lili Taylor
Fisher Stevens
Gisli Halldorsson
and Laura Hughes
In the spirit of such independent classics as Jim Jarmusch's Mystery Train, Cold Fever is a witty and mystical journey of spiritual rebirth. Atsushi Hirata (Mystery Train's Masatoshi Nagase), a young Japanese executive, is forced to give up his yearly golf trip to Hawaii to perform a traditional memorial ceremony for his parents in the middle of Iceland. Chugging across the haunting, frozen landscapes in an old Citroen, Atsushi encounters a place as surreal as the land itself - a place of boiled sheep's heads, nature spirits, Icelandic cowboys, a potent liquor called Black Death and oddball American hitchhikers (Lili Taylor, I Shot Andy Warhol and Fisher Stevens, TV's Early Edition). But in the end, this quirky, mystical travelogue becomes a personal quest for redemption as Atsushi makes peace with the dead, and more importantly, himself.
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