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.

Timothy Hutton
as Dr. Stanley Shephard

Lindsay Crouse
as Dr. Diane Brady

John Lone
as Charlie

Josef Sommer
as Whitman

David Strathairn
as Dr. Singe

James Tolkan
as Maynard

Danny Glover
as Loomis

Richard Monette
as Hogan

Amelia Hall
as Mabel

Philip Akin
as Dr. Vermeil