Frozen River
Desperation Knows No Borders
6.7 / 10
97 minutes
2008-03-26
English
US
Actors :
Melissa Leo, Misty Upham, Charlie McDermott, John Canoe, Jay Klaitz, Dylan Carusona, James Reilly, Michael O'Keefe, Mark Boone Junior, Betty Ouyang
Description
Ray Eddy, an upstate New York trailer mom, is lured into the world of illegal immigrant smuggling. Broke after her husband takes off with the down payment for their new doublewide, Ray reluctantly teams up with Lila, a smuggler, and the two begin making runs across the frozen St. Lawrence River carrying illegal Chinese and Pakistani immigrants in the trunk of Ray's Dodge Spirit.
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Reviews
CinemaSerf
8/18/2024, 7:13:38 AM
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 e...