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After her husband deserts her, working-class mother Ray Eddy (Melissa Leo) is in great need of money to find a home. Then the lure of fast money from smuggling presents Ray a daily challenge.
6 April 1990, West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
24 April 1955, Mount Vernon, New York, USA
March 06, 2015
This fine drama delivers a reality tougher than realism.
September 05, 2008
There are moments of poetry on display.
August 29, 2008
It moves and it heals, finding hints of redemption in the jagged face of life.
July 17, 2009
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.
August 29, 2008
The miracle of filmmaker Courtney Hunt's tense, carefully understated debut is that it is made better by its few flights of fancy.
September 24, 2010
Melissa Leo's Oscar-nominated performance as a mother not above illegal business, but resolutely clinging to honesty and not giving into hypocrisy, is terrific. Hope comes from hard sacrifice in a finale proving sometimes possessions are our blessings.
August 26, 2009
Hunt's weakness for contrivance and underlined points threaten to elbow out her sensitivity
August 15, 2011
A pair of border-town losers come to represent everyone who's ever been up against it in this country, especially the women.
October 21, 2014
Frozen River is bleak and uncompromising - and that's just how the Academy likes it.
July 24, 2009
Courtney Hunt's low-budget blue-collar thriller, Frozen River, is one of the most impressive feature debuts of the past several years.
February 10, 2009
Frozen River let me forget I was watching a movie, something that didn't happen often in 2008.
August 29, 2008
Frozen River isn't just a good movie made by a woman; it's a good movie on anyone's terms, one of the year's best. To find hope beneath this ice, in this ugly terrain, is to dream big.
