Movie Review: "Frozen River"

This Indie is currently showing at Malco Studio on the Square. Mid South native, Courtney Hunt, both wrote and directed this film. The plot concerns the interplay between two single mothers in a rural upstate New York border town. One is white and the other Mohawk. Both struggle to keep their families together in difficult financial and social circumstances by smuggling across the frozen St Lawrence River. The overall mood of the story is dark and depressing. In the end, both learn how to sacrifice self to serve each other. Unfortunately, the overarching principle of their decisions is post-modernist and willing to sacrifice honesty and integrity to meet the basic needs of their respective families.