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Frozen River (2008)

26/03/2008 (US)Drama, Crime1h 37m
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Desperation Knows No Borders

Overview

After her husband deserts her, working-class mother Ray Eddy is in great need of money to find a home. Lured by the possibility of easy cash, she joins Lila, a widowed Mohawk who earns a living by smuggling immigrants from Canada to the U.S. across the St. Lawrence.

    Top Billed Cast

    1. Melissa Leo

      Melissa Leo

      Ray Eddy

    2. Misty Upham

      Misty Upham

      Lila Littlewolf

    3. Charlie McDermott

      Charlie McDermott

      TJ

    4. John Canoe

      Bernie Littlewolf

    5. Jay Klaitz

      Jay Klaitz

      Guy Versailles

    6. Dylan Carusona

      Jimmy

    7. James Reilly

      Ricky

    8. Michael O'Keefe

      Michael O'Keefe

      Trooper Finnerty

    9. Mark Boone Junior

      Mark Boone Junior

      Jacques Bruno

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    A review by CinemaSerf

    7.0
    Written by CinemaSerf on Aug 18, 2024

    Well it's certainly aptly titled as we head to a northern New York reservation where the Mohawk people live on the border with Quebec. There's precisely no opportunity here, so many of the locals really only subsist from hand to mouth on government handouts. "Ray" (Melissa Leo) has two young children; a hapless, gambling, husband and lives in a dilapidated motor home from which they hope to soon escape. The husband does a bunk though, and that leaves her in the lurch and struggling to pay the bills. At this point, serendipity takes a hand in her life with a chance meeting with "Lila" (Misty Up...

    StatusReleased

    Original LanguageEnglish

    Budget$1,000,000.00

    Revenue$5,457,664.00

    Keywords

    • trailer park
    • illegal immigration
    • human trafficking
    • border crossing
    • snow
    • undocumented immigrant
    • new york state
    • native american reservation
    • woman director
    • canadian border