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Frozen River (DVD, 2009)
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Experience the gripping tale of two women forced to smuggle illegal immigrants across the frozen St. Lawrence River in this intense drama directed by Courtney Hunt and starring Melissa Leo, Misty Upham, and Charlie McDermott. This DVD features English audio in DD Stereo and has a runtime of 1 hour and 33 minutes. The film, produced in the UK by Axiom Films, is available in DVD format with one disc and region code 2 (Europe, Japan, Middle East...). Don't miss out on this captivating story that will leave you on the edge of your seat.
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A desperate single mother living in upstate New York resorts to smuggling illegal immigrants into the United States as a means of making ends meet in first-time feature director/screenwriter Courtney Hunt's emotionally wrenching drama, winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Dramatic Feature at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.Product Identifiers
ProducerHeather Rae, Chip Hourihan
EAN5060126870562
eBay Product ID (ePID)73984300
Product Key Features
ActorCharlie Mcdermott, Mark Boone, Jay Klaitz, Michael O'keefe, John Canoe, Michael Sky, Misty Upham, Dylan Carusona, James Reilly, Melissa Chessington Leo, Bernie Littlewolf
Film/TV TitleFrozen River
DirectorCourtney Hunt
LanguageEnglish
Run Time93 Mins
Aspect Ratio16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Release Year2009
FormatDVD
FeaturesWidescreen
GenreDrama, General
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Certificate15
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America
ComposerPeter Golub, Shahad Ismaily
Production DesignerInbal Weinberg
Additional InformationCourtney Hunt's feature directorial debut FROZEN RIVER is a powerfully unflinching tale of two women, who, driven by economic hardship, form an unlikely partnership smuggling illegal immigrants across the Canadian border. Melissa Leo turns in a gritty performance as Ray, a struggling dollar-store cashier and mother living in a trailer home in upstate New York who is desperate to make ends meet. When Ray's gambling-addicted husband runs off with the family's payment on a new doublewide trailer, her life quickly spirals into a financial tailspin. During a frenzied search for her deadbeat spouse, she apprehends Lila (Misty Upham), a Mohawk Indian from an area reservation, attempting to steal her car. In the process of taking back her vehicle, she learns of Lila's smuggling operation through an unpatrolled corridor within Mohawk territory--the frozen St. Lawrence River that forms part of the border between the U.S. and Canada. Out of necessity, they form an uneasy alliance: Ray, working to meet the payment's deadline, and Lila, who scrambles to earn money to redeem herself to her estranged in-laws and infant child. <BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>Within a stark, mostly minimalist screenplay, Hunt seamlessly works in contemporary anxieties: economic recession, immigration, and trafficking, but never puts too fine a point on social relevance to the detriment of a compelling storyline. As the plot heats up, the stakes Ray and Lila encounter get higher and the danger, more real. FROZEN RIVER is more than a sombre meditation on lives in peril, it's a complex portrait of women from different walks of life struggling to find their ethical bearings in a harsh, unforgiving, and corrupt world.
ReviewsEntertainment Weekly - In FROZEN RIVER, Leo's acting has a brittle severity and power. Every moment of her performance feels torn from experience, and so does the movie, which finds a suspense in broken lives that are hanging in the balance, Los Angeles Times - This intense indie drama of unlikely female partners involved in a smuggling operation on the Canadian border is a bracing character study, USA Today - A Sundance hit that is both absorbing and bleak, FROZEN RIVER is anchored by powerful performances, believable scenarios and excellent writing, Box Office - Melissa Leo delivers a beautifully understated performance as Ray Eddy....Writer/director Courtney Hunt keeps her bearings on Leo, granting the actress unparalleled latitude to evolve a character...
ScreenwriterCourtney Hunt
Sound sourceDolby Digital
EditorKate Williams
Movie/TV TitleFrozen River
Director of PhotographyReed Morano
Consumer AdviceContains strong language and moderate threat and violence
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- 24 Oct, 2018
Fantastic film, if a little grim, but that is the harsh reality of it.
Courtney Hunt's low-budget blue-collar thriller, Frozen River, is one of the most impressive feature debuts of the past several years. It's set in and around the physically beautiful but socially deprived Mohawk reservation that's located partly in upstate New York and partly in southern Quebec, on either side of the US-Canadian border marked by the St Lawrence river. It's an area that is largely unfamiliar to the public at large, though back in the 1950s The Observer was instrumental in briefly bringing it to worldwide attention. In 1957 the novelist and critic John Wain was commissioned by this paper to interview America's greatest man of letters, Edmund Wilson, at his upstate New York home and happened to ask him about the condition of the local Indians. It wasn't a matter to which Wilson had given any thought, and he gave Wain a vague reply. A few weeks later Wilson read a news report about Mohawk Indians moving in on some nearby ground they claimed as theirs. Crediting Wain for exciting his interest, he embarked upon a series of articles for the New Yorker that in 1960 became Apologies to the Iroquois, a seminal work in drawing attention to the plight and struggles of Native Americans. Advertisement Frozen River brings together two women, one white, the other a Mohawk Indian (one of the six tribes that make up the Iroquois nation), in the days before Christmas, and initially we're not invited to like either. We first see the bedraggled Ray Eddy (Melissa Leo) with a cigarette between her filthy fingernails, preparing for another desperate day coping with her two sons, one six, the other 15, in her rundown small-town home. Her husband, a chronic gambler, has just left, taking with him the next payment on a prefab dream house she's expecting to have delivered. Her job at the local Yankee Dollar convenience store is under threat (though she pretends a promotion is imminent), and her life is as bleak as the snow-covered landscape traversed by muddy roads. Searching for her husband, she sees his car being driven away by an obese young Indian woman. Ray follows her to a battered caravan on the Mohawk reservation and discovers her quarry to be the surly Lila Littlewolf (Misty Upham), who claims the car was abandoned by a man she saw catching a bus south with a young woman. The angry Ray pulls a gun on Lila, but after trying in vain to tow the car away, she agrees to Lila's proposition to sell it to one of the Reservation's smugglers. Gradually we discover that both women are decent mothers struggling in desperate situations. Lila has also been deserted by her husband and has trouble holding down a job and supporting her baby who is being cared for by her mother-in-law. Ray will do anything to feed and house her kids and keep them in school. The two women are first mutually suspicious, then cautiously trusting partners in crime working as people-smugglers, driving Asian aliens hidden in the car boot across the frozen and unpatrolled St Lawrence into America. Within the reservation (where there's catastrophic unemployment), Ray is unwelcome, but Lila is pretty well invulnerable. In the States, with Ray as driver, the suspicions of the state troopers that Lila would arouse are allayed. The pair, whom we come to care deeply about, are living on thin ice, and the frozen St Lawrence signifies both the opportunity to make quick money and the risk of disaster. The trafficking points to the terrible irony of two Americans living hand-to-mouth while facilitating the passage of foreigners who pay everything they've got to snakehead gangs to start a new life in the States. The excitement and suspense steadily escalate as things start to go wrong when a Pakistani couple hides a baby in their luggage. Then matters get even worse on that inevitable "last job": a gunfight breaks out in Canada, and a police pursuit ensues. There are some problematic moments in the plot, but the resolution is satisfying and achieved without rhetoric or sentimentality. A lawyer turned filmmaker, Courtney Hunt experienced some of the same privations as Ray's boys, and interestingly cites Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Any More as a film that influenced her as a child. She brings a sharp eye to the world of Ray and Lila and is rewarded by excellent, wholly uningratiating performances from Leo, who was rightly nominated for an Oscar (and in my view should have won) and Upham. They work beautifully together. There is also striking support from Charles McDermott as Ray's troubled, resourceful teenage son, and from Michael O'Keefe as a sympathetic state trooper. A credit to the independent sector of the American cinema, Frozen River cost far less than the first two minutes of the new Harry Potter picture and is an hour shorter. The Guardian.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 09 Dec, 2017
Entertaining and good plot
Not a bad story with an interesting unexpected ending! Well worth a viewing with a glass of wine and that special someone to snuggle up too.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
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