Iceman

A scientific expedition in the Arctic uncovers the body of a prehistoric man preserved in ice. To the team's surprise, the man is not dead but can be revived. Anthropologist Dr. Stanley Shephard takes a personal interest in him, while Dr. Diane Brady and her surgical colleagues see a chance to study how a human body can survive in a frozen state. The revived man, called Charlie, is kept in a controlled environment that recreates the conditions of his own time, and a tentative friendship grows between him and Shephard. Other members of the project, among them Dr. Singe, push to treat Charlie as an object of research, and the disagreement over his fate becomes the film's central conflict.

Fred Schepisi directed Iceman, released in 1984. It followed Barbarosa (1982), his third feature, and came before Roxanne (1987) and Evil Angels (1988) in a career that spans five decades. Timothy Hutton plays Shephard and Lindsay Crouse plays Brady, with John Lone as Charlie. Josef Sommer, David Strathairn and James Tolkan appear in supporting roles. The screenplay was written by Chip Proser and John Drimmer for Universal Pictures, and Norman Jewison and Patrick J. Palmer produced.

Audience response has been modest but durable. On IMDb the film holds a 6.2 rating from roughly 6,500 votes, and on TMDB it also stands at 6.2, based on a smaller number of ratings. The two scores agree closely, indicating a consistent, if unenthusiastic, reception among viewers.