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I wrote a post about it maybe a year and a half ago or so, it went by entirely unnoticed, but really, it's a very good movie. A beautiful movie, even as it is ugly and horrendous.
It's SO seventies, and yet it is exactly that which makes it beautiful, along with the cast. A young Tobey Maguire, and an even younger Christina Ricci and Elijah Wood. Kevin Klein and Sigourney Weaver (whose "real" first name is Susan I believe).
Directed by Ang Lee, his first movie in English, and a man who was so very far from the US in the 70s. It's a remarkable accomplishment.
I love this movie, everybody should see it, because it is beautiful and scary and poetic, things are built in this movie, and things are destroyed.
I love it.
"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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That's one of the biggest drawbacks to living in Asia...very limited access to media like old movies...wish I could see it...it sounds right up my alley, for sure.
Last week, I bought a DVD from the "cheap and obscure" rack called "Robin of Locksley" with Devan Sawa, just cuz the cast looked cute. Pretty lame film, mostly...playing off the old Robin Hood films, with Robin as a prep school kid being bullied and stealing money from big bad corporations to give to a sick friend in the hospital who was poor and needed an operation...all the names were a bit obvious...the priest was Father Tuck...the bad guy was John Prince...the kid was an archery champion...but the casr WAS cute, so it was worth my $3.
"Always forgive your enemies...nothing annoys them quite so much." Oscar Wilde
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You could order it from Amazon for example, or maybe even a regional outlet if needed (I think Asia is region 3?). The movie itself isn't THAT old actually, it's just set like 30 years into the past, hehe. Nixon is embroiled in the Watergate scandal and all that, the Vietnam war is going strong etc. And, like I said, it is such an amazing movie.
It follows several characters in their own plotlines, intercutting between them. It feels almost documentary in a way... The cast is so incredible, for example the woman whatshername who plays CJ Creggs in "The West Wing" (I thought it was Allison Fenney, but her last name's Janney I found out after googling it, haha), she's got this fairly small part as a flamboyant party hostess and she is INCREDIBLE. She looks surreal in a way in her 70s hair and huge 70s glasses, and she has that same commanding aura as when she plays CJ, but not the uptightedness. She's an unfettered spirit this time, or something. 
Elijah plays such a kooky guy. Not many actors his age could do that with any degreee of success, but he pulls it off in a most believable fashion. I won't say anything else, but he is a total kook, really. Christina on the other hand gets to play the kind of role guys mostly do in movies. She's young and developing, and...curious. Hahaha! It's all very innocent though, but I just thought it funny she gets to be more like the guy than the two boy actors in the movie. Her role may be somewhat more straight-forward, but her performance is no less magnificient.
I feel as if 30% is in the environment, that ice storm, the small suburb-like community. 50% of the movie is in the setting. The time era, the furniture, clothes, cars etc. 60% of it is in the script, the dialogue, the plots, all those characters lost and confused in the fog or reality. Finally, 80% of it is in the acting (and as a function of that I guess, direction from Ang Lee too).
The official website is also superb, I might add, with all sorts of talk about behind-the-scenes stuff, interviews with production crew etc. I don't remember it giving away any hints or spoilers, but maybe it's best to not visit it until after you've seen the movie...
Good luck!
-L
"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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"The Ice Storm" is on TV again... 
Well David, "The Ice Storm" is out on DVD you know... 
