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Directed By
Courtney Hunt
Written By:
Courtney Hunt
Cast:
Melissa Leo, Misty Upham, Michael O'Keefe, Mark Boone Junior, Pun Bandhu, Joey Chanlin, John Canoe, Charlie McDermott, Charlie McDermott, James Reilly, Dylan Carusona, Michael Sky, Nancy Wu, Rajesh Bose, Thahnhahténhtha Gilbert, Adam Lukens, Betty Ouyang, Craig Shilowich, Jay Klaitz, Gargi Shinde
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Frozen River (2008)
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Favorite Movie Quote: "That wasn't me. That was the hand of the creator."
2 Oscar nominations and enough wins and nominations, including an Independent Sprit Award for Melissa Leo, that this film is definitely one of the very best of 2008.
So what do you do when your husband has a gambling problem and leaves with the money you saved for a new house, leaving you to take care of two kids on a retail salary? Ray Eddy (Melissa Leo) finds a way to survive and feed her children more than popcorn and Tang, along with helping them deal with their father's absence.
She hooks up with Lila Littlejohn (Misty Upham), a Mohawk who lives alone, claiming her mother-in-law stole her child. You can see her pain when she stares at someone else's child. They smuggle Pakistanis and Chinese across the New York/Canadian border.
This writer/director Courtney Hunt's first film, and she keeps it focused on the survival of the women. It doesn't get into immigration policy or lawbreaking, it just two women trying to survive.
It wasn't always easy, as the incident at the strip bar showed. Then there were the troopers to worry about.
I don't think that Ray and Lila bonded, but they did work out an arrangement that benefited both when things went wrong. You do what you have to to survive.
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