Frozen River

In Courtney Hunt's Frozen River, deuce 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 iI sons. The other mother simply wants her son back from her one-time mother-in-law.


Shot on DV and acquired by Sony Pictures Classics for under a million, River north Korean 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 Sugar, Fleck's followup to the enthralling Half Nelson.


Filmed in upstate New York, Hunt's film stars Melissa Leo as Ray, the