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
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Courtney Hunt Director
- Melissa Leo as Ray Eddy
- Misty Upham as Lila Littlewolf
- Charlie McDermott as TJ
- John Canoe as Bernie Littlewolf
- Jay Klaitz as Guy Versailles
- Dylan Carusona as Jimmy
- James Reilly as Ricky
- Michael O'Keefe as Trooper Finnerty
- Mark Boone Junior as Jacques Bruno
- Betty Ouyang as Chinese woman
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
88%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Frozen River let me forget I was watching a movie, something that didn't happen often in 2008.
Mark Bourne, Film.com
Fresh
There are moments of poetry on display.
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald
Fresh
It moves and it heals, finding hints of redemption in the jagged face of life.
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle
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
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