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Frozen River
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After her husband deserts her, working-class mother Ray Eddy (Melissa Leo) is in great need of money to find a home. Then the lure of fast money from smuggling presents Ray a daily challenge.
After her husband deserts her, working-class mother Ray Eddy (Melissa Leo) is in great need of money to find a home. Then the lure of fast money from smuggling presents Ray a daily challenge.
Actors:
Betty Deer,
Gargi Shinde,
Gary Hemingway,
Trudy Rice,
Misty Upham,
Justin Kotyk,
Madelyn Cross,
Donna David,
Paul Borst,
Cristal Dennis,
Nancy L. Russell,
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Betty Deer
Gargi Shinde
Gary Hemingway
Trudy Rice
Misty Upham
6 July 1982, Kalispell, Montana, USA
Justin Kotyk
Madelyn Cross
Donna David
Paul Borst
31 December 1975, Kingston, New York, USA
Cristal Dennis
Nancy L. Russell
Director:
Courtney Hunt
Courtney Hunt
1964, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Country:
United States
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August 26, 2009
Hunt's weakness for contrivance and underlined points threaten to elbow out her sensitivity
February 10, 2009
Frozen River let me forget I was watching a movie, something that didn't happen often in 2008.
July 24, 2009
Courtney Hunt's low-budget blue-collar thriller, Frozen River, is one of the most impressive feature debuts of the past several years.
August 29, 2008
Frozen River isn't just a good movie made by a woman; it's a good movie on anyone's terms, one of the year's best. To find hope beneath this ice, in this ugly terrain, is to dream big.
September 24, 2010
Melissa Leo's Oscar-nominated performance as a mother not above illegal business, but resolutely clinging to honesty and not giving into hypocrisy, is terrific. Hope comes from hard sacrifice in a finale proving sometimes possessions are our blessings.
March 06, 2015
This fine drama delivers a reality tougher than realism.
July 17, 2009
Occasionally marred by contrivance and a crude internal logic that doesn't bear close scrutiny, 'Frozen River' works best as a knuckle-gnawing, blue-collar genre thriller.
August 29, 2008
It moves and it heals, finding hints of redemption in the jagged face of life.
August 15, 2011
A pair of border-town losers come to represent everyone who's ever been up against it in this country, especially the women.
September 05, 2008
There are moments of poetry on display.
October 21, 2014
Frozen River is bleak and uncompromising - and that's just how the Academy likes it.
Stephen Cole
August 29, 2008
The miracle of filmmaker Courtney Hunt's tense, carefully understated debut is that it is made better by its few flights of fancy.

