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Frozen River
Desperation Knows No Borders
Desperation Knows No Borders
Crime, Drama - 2008
7.1
88%
82
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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Rated:
R
Runtime:
97 min
Release date:
26 Mar 2008
Country:
US
Languages:
English, French, Urdu, Chinese
Budget:
$1,000,000
Revenue:
$5,457,664
Awards:
Nominated for 2 Oscars. 32 wins & 39 nominations total

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
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.
– David Jenkins,
Time Out,
17 Jul 2009
fresh:
Frozen River let me forget I was watching a movie, something that didn't happen often in 2008.
– Mark Bourne,
Film.com,
10 Feb 2009
fresh:
There are moments of poetry on display.
– Rene Rodriguez,
Miami Herald,
5 Sep 2008
fresh:
It moves and it heals, finding hints of redemption in the jagged face of life.
– Amy Biancolli,
Houston Chronicle,
29 Aug 2008
fresh:
The miracle of filmmaker Courtney Hunt's tense, carefully understated debut is that it is made better by its few flights of fancy.
– Stephen Cole,
Globe and Mail,
29 Aug 2008
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