The Ice Storm

…to make his next film, The Ice Storm (1997), a tragic drama set in the 1970s about two spiritually empty upper-middle-class American families. The film was based on Rick Moody’s best-selling 1994 novel and starred Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, and Sigourney Weaver. In 2000 Lee directed Wo hu cang long…

…also included Ang Lee’s drama The Ice Storm (1997) and Frank Oz’s social comedy In & Out (1997). He played Bottom in Michael Hoffman’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1999) and Artemus Gordon in Wild Wild West (1999).

…later starred in the acclaimed The Ice Storm (1997), a period piece about Watergate-era suburban malaise directed by Ang Lee. Weaver was cast as an unfaithful wife whose cold exterior hides a deep loneliness. The two actors also reunited decades later, starring in the comedy The Good House (2021).