Frozen River (R)

Running Time : 1 hours, 37 minutes
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Synopsis:

“The film does what too many independent American movies only pretend to do: Takes you to an unnoticed corner of our country and shows what it's like to actually live there,” writes Ty Burr of the Boston Globe.

Frozen River is the story of Ray Eddy, an upstate New York trailer mom who is lured into the world of illegal immigrant smuggling when she meets a Mohawk girl who lives on a reservation that straddles the US-Canadian border. 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.

Kenneth Turan, of the Los Angeles Times writes: “Let Frozen River wash over you; let its bracing drama and the intensity of its acting restore your spirits as well as your faith in American independent film.”