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Show all (5)Mickey Prohaska is a small-time insurance agent looking for a way to jump-start his business, reunite with his estranged wife and escape the frigid Wisconsin weather. This self-proclaimed master of spin believes that salesmanship is about selling a story - all he needs is a sucker willing to buy it. He hits pay dirt with a lonely retired farmer who is sitting on something much bigger than an insurance commission. But Mickey's attempt to con the old man spins out of control when a nosy, unstable locksmith with a volatile temper dramatically ups the stakes, trapping him in a madcap spiral of danger, deceit and double-crossing.
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Greg Kinnear is one of the most effortlessly likable presences in movies today, which makes him especially good at playing creeps and oddballs. Whether it's the sex-addicted Bob Crane in the creepy-clammy biopic Auto Focus, the about-to-go-broke dad in Little Miss Sunshine, or the paranoid inventor in Flash of Genius, Kinnear is able to incarnate the most abominable, obsessive behavior imaginable -- and yet still make us care about the fate of his characters.
Given the right material, you can easily imagine him doing what Jimmy Stewart did in Rear Window and Vertigo -- and conjuring up a classic cinematic perv whom we'll never be able to shake from our memories.
The half-macabre, half-comic thriller Thin Ice isn't that movie. (Full review)