''Frozen Stupid'' is a 2008 comedy television film starring

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, Joey Albright, and Kimberly Norris, with Michelle Mountain, Randall Godwin, and Will David Young. The film was

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, and produced by Richard Brauer.((( Frozen Stupid > Overview )))
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Plot

On a snowy Saturday, in a Midwestern winter landscape ( Houghton Lake, Michigan ), Tony Norgard (Joey Albright) desperately wants to go

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. But he is pressured to attend his

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's birthday party on the same day. To resolve the dilemma, Tony pretends to be sick and stays in bed. While his little white lie allows him the chance for a secret outing, it comes with a heavy price. Through the day, misfortune seems to meet him at every turn. When he meets up with his dad Frank (

), things get worse. Tony's lie seems to have put a

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on what should otherwise have been a simple day of fishing for everyone. Unaware of the charade, Tony's wife Lila (Michelle Mountain) happily goes about her day, sorry that her husband is at home, sick in bed, missing a great weekend of family fun. Tony befriends the spirited and very independent Stormy, ( Kimberly Norris), a beautiful, yet rugged ice fisher woman. Stormy becomes one of the many unusual characters Tony meets in this frozen lake community of

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s. Through it all, even Tony is dwarfed by the magnitude of his compounding troubles. But he is an optimistic man and in his own way tries to put the best spin on the mess he has created. With hopeful confidence, Lila somehow manages to see past his ice-fishing antics. She remembers the honorable man she married, and armed with large amounts of grace, remains supportive. This comedy tells the tale of a cantankerous father and his bumbling but well-meaning son who share a joyous obsession for the age-old

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of ice fishing.

References

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* * https://web.archive.org/web/20080124162611/http://www.brauer.com/pages/prod/cinema/frozenstupid/fs_nw.html 2008 television films 2008 films 2000s buddy comedy films American buddy comedy films American comedy television films Films about fishing 2000s English-language films 2000s American films English-language buddy comedy films {{2000s-US-film-stub