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Thin Ice is a american film of genre Drama directed by Jill Sprecher released in USA on 25 january 2011 with Greg Kinnear
Thin Ice (2011)
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Add to a movie listThin Ice (formerly The Convincer) is a 2011 comedy-drama film starring Greg Kinnear, Alan Arkin and Billy Crudup, directed by Jill Sprecher.
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Wisconsin insurance salesman Mickey Prohaska is in desperate financial straits. His wife JoAnn has thrown him out of the house, and he is willing to do or say practically anything to sell anybody a policy. Mickey accompanies another insurance agent he has just met, Bob Egan, to the farm of an elderly man named Gorvy Hauer. The house is a mess and Gorvy is absent-minded, perhaps a tad senile. He does not have much money and, the little he has, he seems to keep in a jar. Mickey tries to sell the old man some insurance anyway.Actors
Greg Kinnear
(Mickey Prohaska)
Alan Arkin
(Gorvy Hauer)
Billy Crudup
(Randy)
Lea Thompson
(Jo Ann Prohaska)
Bob Balaban
(Leonard Dahl)
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