Mikey Carver — The Ice Storm Character Profile

About Mikey Carver

Jim and Janey's son, portrayed as quiet and withdrawn. Walks alone into a severe ice storm, captivated by the frozen landscape. Sits on a guardrail where he is fatally electrocuted by a fallen tree taking down a power line, triggering the film's tragic climax.

Character Facts

Played by

Elijah Wood

Appears in

The Ice Storm (1997)

Role

Supporting

Relationships (3)

• Mikey Carver — Family Mother — Janey Carver (Sigourney Weaver)

  Mother-son bond

• Mikey Carver — Social Friend — Wendy Hood (Christina Ricci)

  Close friends

• Mikey Carver — Social Peer — Paul Hood (Tobey Maguire)

  Classmate relationship

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More characters from The Ice Storm

• Ben Hood (Kevin Kline)
• Elena Hood (Joan Allen)
• Janey Carver (Sigourney Weaver)
• Jim Carver (Jamey Sheridan)
• George Clair (Henry Czerny)
• Wendy Hood (Christina Ricci)
• Dot Halford (Allison Janney)
• Paul Hood (Tobey Maguire)
• Neil Conrad (Glenn Fitzgerald)
• Weather Reporter (Barbara Garrick)
• Dorothy Franklin (Kate Burton)
• Ted Franklin (Jonathan Freeman)