Frozen River

Frozen River

  • Director: Courtney Hunt
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English, French, Chinese, Urdu, Mohawk
  • Release date: September 5, 2008
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Río helado
  • Frozen River is a crime drama film directed by Courtney Hunt and starring Melissa Chessington Leo , Misty Appam, Raymond Peter O'Keefe Jr.
    The film tells the story of two single mothers who take a risk and participate in illegal immigration from Canada to the United States in order to make a living   .

    Details

    • Release date September 5, 2008
    • Filming locations Plattsburgh, New York, USA
    • Production companies Cohen Media Group, Frozen River Pictures, Harwood Hunt Productions

    Box office

    Budget

    $1,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $2,511,476

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $70,234

    Gross worldwide

    $5,457,664

    Movie reviews

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    • By Theron 2022-03-23 09:03:22

      "Frozen River": When the Ice and Snow Melt [The 24th Sundance Film Festival Jury Best Film]

      http://blog.trivialfilm.com/2012/12/frozen-river24.html

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      film won the Best Film of the Jury at the 24th Sundance Film Festival in 2008.

      The film tells the story of a woman involved in smuggling to make money. The heroine's husband ran away from home and took all the money, making life hard for the rest of the family. The heroine goes to find her husband, but the husband is not found but helps an Indian woman to participate in a smuggling....

    • By Isac 2022-03-23 09:03:22

      life is not easy

      The highlight of this film is that it ruthlessly exposes the drawbacks of capitalism. The gap between the rich and the poor is large, the bourgeoisie is indifferent, the working class has a low status, the national thinking is generally lax, and most people do not strive for progress.

      The poor social environment is not enough, the living environment is even worse, the latitude is high, the weather is cold, and the roads are icy and no one cares. It costs $550 to watch cable TV a year,...

    • By Constantin 2022-03-22 09:02:54

      New life after despair

      Watching a film rarely pays attention to the director and the actors. Anyway, as long as you look good
      , the fate of the housewives is a bit tragic. The husband ran away with the money, and left their mother-in-law
      to take risks to make a living, but I think I still don’t know enough about American culture.
      Since life is so hard, why do you have to buy a Christmas tree Pendant, in fact,
      it's just a surprise for the mother who wants to give the child. When I was a child, my...

    • By Roselyn 2022-03-22 09:02:54

      If you don't toss to death, you're not finished

      This movie is really a standard example of independent production. Small scale, very social borderline subject matter, very sharp, very deep, emotionally strong, also very condescending, very cold, but lacks an atmosphere. The film didn't surprise me, which is to be expected, and of course it didn't disappoint me either.

      Pushed to the brink of life, a single mother takes risks for her child and embarks on a criminal journey full of pain and danger. This is almost a natural subject for...

    • By Christopher 2022-03-22 09:02:54

      ice mother

      After Sundance contributed the hilarious Little Miss Sunshine to Oscar, it launched a cruel and cold frozen river.

      It is the white people who can cross the river on thin ice, the Chinese who have to smuggle it, the Pakistanis who have the opportunity to smuggle and are mistaken for terrorists, and the Indians in the original book depend on whether they behave well on the ice and stay here. right.

      On the ice, the women who are anxiously looking for a place to live, are also...

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    • By Leo 2022-03-26 09:01:13

      I'm not really a feminist, but when the man as the father figure in the film abandons the struggling mother and son again, shouldn't women be allowed to make a few swear words at this time? Should they just sit back and wait for others to save them? softer sometimes...

    • By Brandy 2022-03-26 09:01:13

      It's really annoying to watch, or something else is really...

    • By Verda 2022-03-26 09:01:13

      The frozen world freezes the river, but cannot freeze the heart. A very warm female self-improvement...

    • By Virgil 2022-03-26 09:01:13

      interesting women's...

    • By Ericka 2022-03-26 09:01:13

      It's not easy to make money, it's not easy to make money, it's not easy for everyone, the heroine is indeed very good, not deliberately not hypocritical, and the interpretation of psychological activities highlights the few scenes that revolve around...

    Movie plot

    The border between New York State and Quebec is mostly reserved for Indians, including the Mohawk. A white woman named Leigh Eddie (Melissa Leo) , just two days before Christmas, her husband left her, not only that, but he also swept away all their savings, Forcing Lei to feed her two sons with popcorn and soup, because as a single mother, the only thing she could find was the kind of minimum wage job, it was impossible to afford a...
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    Evaluation action

    The tone of the film is very cold, with white snow, dark green woods and gray-white houses, condensing the entire story world of the film into a cold atmosphere, but it is in such a cold atmosphere that people can learn from the story. I feel moved by the double impact of motherhood and humanity   . (NetEase Entertainment Review)
    "Frozen River" doesn't have a dazzling plot and a bunch of big stars. The layout is small and very...
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    Movie quotes

    • Ray Eddy: I think we need to talk about this Troy... come on out. Troy?

      [shoots gun]

      Ray Eddy: ... I mean it Honey.

    • [repeated line]

      Lila Littlewolf: Count it.

    • Ray Eddy: What if a trooper stops us?

      Lila Littlewolf: They're not gonna stop you, you're white.