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The Iceman Cometh
UNITED STATES · 1960

The Iceman Cometh

Sidney Lumet
self-deception redemption alcoholism pipe dreams moral awakening
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Synopsis

Theodore Hickman, a hardware salesman, makes semi-annual visits to Harry Hope's 1910-era waterfront bar for his periodical drinking binges. But on this visit he has decided to try to save the bar's patrons from their "lying pipe dreams."

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