After her husband deserts her, working-class mother Ray Eddy is in great need of money to find a home. Lured by the possibility of easy cash, she joins Lila, a widowed Mohawk who earns a living by smuggling immigrants from Canada to the U.S. across the St. Lawrence.
Acting
Melissa Leo's ferocious, Oscar-nominated desperation.
Direction
Courtney Hunt makes frozen rivers genuinely terrifying.
Production
Shot in actual subzero conditions—no faking that misery.
Director
Courtney Hunt
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