Frozen River

Frozen River

Desperation Knows No Borders

Sinopse

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.

  • 6.6
  • 2008
  • Released
  • 1h 37m
Status

Released

Original Language

en

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

Reviews

Geronimo1967
@Geronimo1967over 1 year ago

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

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