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Frozen River

  • 7.1 /10

  • 340

  • 88%

Plot

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.

Cast

Melissa Leo as Ray Eddy
Melissa Leo

as Ray Eddy

Misty Upham as Lila Littlewolf
Misty Upham

as Lila Littlewolf

John Canoe as Bernie Littlewolf
John Canoe

as Bernie Littlewolf

Jay Klaitz as Guy Versailles
Jay Klaitz

as Guy Versailles

Dylan Carusona as Jimmy
Dylan Carusona

as Jimmy

James Reilly as Ricky
James Reilly

as Ricky

Michael O'Keefe as Trooper Finnerty
Michael O'Keefe

as Trooper Finnerty

Mark Boone Junior as Jacques Bruno
Mark Boone Junior

as Jacques Bruno

Betty Ouyang as Chinese woman
Betty Ouyang

as Chinese woman

Movie Facts

Rated

  • R

Status

  • Released

Release Date

  • March 26, 2008

Production Companies

  • Harwood Hunt Productions

  • Cohen Media Group

Production Countries

  • United States of America

Spoken Language

  • English

  • Français

  • اردو

  • 普通话

Budget

  • $1,000,000.00

Revenue

  • $5,457,664.00

Runtime

  • 1.62 hrs

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Reviews

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 …