FROZEN RIVER

Year: 2008
USA: Sony Pictures Classics
UK: Axiom Films
Cast: Melissa Leo, Misty Upham, Charlie McDermott, Mark Boone Junior, Michael O'Keefe, Jay Klaitz, James Reilly, Dylan Carusona, Michael Sky, John Canoe, Adam Lukens, Craig Shilowich, Nancy Wu, Betty Ouyang, Joey Chanlin, Pun Bandhu, Rajesh Bose, Gargi Shinde, Thahnhahtenhtha Gilbert
Director: Courtney Hunt
Country: USA
USA & UK: 97 mins
USA Rated: R for some language
UK Certificate: 15 contains strong language and moderate threat and violence
USA Release Date: 1 August 2008 (Limited Release - New York and Los Angeles)
UK Release Date: 17 July 2009 (Limited Release)


Synopsis

Ray Eddy (Melissa Leo) has recently been double crossed by her husband, who leaves her penniless after he disappears with the down payment for their new doublewide.

Left demoralised, feeling betrayed and flat broke, Ray, an upstate New York trailer mom is desperate to make ends meet. When she meets a Mohawk girl called Lila (Misty Upham), a smuggler, who lives on a reservation that traverses both the US-Canadian, she sees an opportunity to ear some cash.

Reluctant to become involved in this dangerous life, Ray considers her bleak situation and joins Lila as they become human traffickers smuggling illegal Chinese and Pakistani immigrants across the frozen St Lawrence River. But it will only be a matter of time before they fall foul of the authorities...