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Although it can't have been easy, director Law Wing-cheong manages to defuse Yen's charismatic skill as a martial artist.
Charles Solomon, Los Angeles Times
Iceman
A stone age man in a space age world... ...All he wants is a friend.
1984 · 1h 40m · PG
Science Fiction
Directed by
Fred Schepisi
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A team of Arctic researchers find a 40,000 year-old man frozen in ice and bring him back to life. Anthropologist Dr. Stanley Shephard wants to befriend the Iceman and learn about the man's past while Dr. Diane Brady and her surgical team want to discover the secret that will allow man to live in a frozen state.
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