Frozen River - movie review

Cast and Crew Director : Courtney Hunt Producer : Heather Rae, In Courtney Hunt's Frozen River, two mothers begin smuggling illegal aliens across the Canadian border by way of the St. Lawrence River. One of them is white American, the other is Native American. The white mother wants to rekindle the trust between her and her two sons. The other mother simply wants her son back from her erstwhile mother-in-law. Shot on DV and acquired by Sony Pictures Classics for under a million, River won the prestigious Grand Jury Prize in the Dramatic Competition at this past year's Sundance Film Festival, beating out Lance Hammer's upcoming, hypnotic Ballast and Ryan Fleck & Anna Boden's Suga r, Fleck's follow-up to the enthralling Half Nelson. Filmed in upstate New York, Hunt's film stars Melissa Leo as Ray, the white mother, an employee... [read full story]