Frozen River
Desperation Knows No Borders
Desperation Knows No Borders
Drama
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2008
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Ray Eddy, an upstate New York trailer mom, is lured into the world of illegal immigrant smuggling. Broke after her husband takes off with the down payment for their new doublewide, Ray reluctantly teams up with Lila, a smuggler, and the two begin making runs across the frozen St. Lawrence River carrying illegal Chinese and Pakistani immigrants in the trunk of Ray's Dodge Spirit.
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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:
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
fresh:
It moves and it heals, finding hints of redemption in the jagged face of life.
– Amy Biancolli,
Houston Chronicle,
29 Aug 2008
fresh:
There are moments of poetry on display.
– Rene Rodriguez,
Miami Herald,
5 Sep 2008
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:
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