Frozen River

2008 US Courtney Hunt
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Ugly NY-state Winter provides backdrop for unlikely friendship between White & Mohawk women that ends predictably / tragically, with important lessons for all—at Christmas! Expect a filmmaker trying to play your heartstrings like an over-eager fifth grader plucking a violin, and with as much intelligence. Amidst the human trafficking and poverty there's even a baby, used as a MacGuffin in a rather horrible 'lil sequence of "will it or won't it die" suspense. Lead actresses do a fine job, look is acceptably dirty, but the script: Jesus. Not that there are many films about the Mohawk, so at least there's that.