FROZEN RIVER

Dir. Courtney Hunt | USA | 2008 | 97 min. | Drama

Sundance juror Quentin Tarantino said Courtney Hunt’s Frozen River, “put my heart in a vise and proceeded to twist until the last frame.”

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, this film takes place in the days before Christmas near a little-known border crossing on the Mohawk reservation between New York State and Quebec. Here, the lure of fast money from smuggling presents a daily challenge to single moms who would otherwise be earning minimum wage.

Two women - one white, one Mohawk, both single mothers faced with desperate circumstances - are drawn into the world of border smuggling across the frozen water of the St. Lawrence River. Ray and Lila... and the New York State Trooper who ultimately brings the two to justice.

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