6.0
Nathalie Granger
1973
“Desperation Knows No Borders”
Frozen River (2008)
March 26, 20081h 37mEN
6.6
350 votes
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.
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Courtney HuntWriter
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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$1.0M
Revenue
$5.5M
Production Companies
Harwood Hunt ProductionsCohen Media Group
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User Reviews
CinemaSerf
7.0Well 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…
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