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Frozen River

Frozen River

6,6 /10 (355 Votes)
2008 EN 97 min

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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Release date

26/03/2008

Votes

355

Popularity

1.4

Desperation Knows No Borders

Genres

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

97 min

Budget

$1,000,000

Revenue

$5,457,664

Original Soundtrack

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2024-08-18

⭐ 7

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…

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