FROZEN RIVER NOT TOO COLDWhat an amazing and fresh film. There are not many movies like this that really show an American reality of living from paycheck to paycheck, in an uneducated, low income family. Ray Eddy (Melissa Leo) is the single mother of two boys; one that can see the reality and one that is too young to have been corrupted by life. She was nominated and should have won that Oscar. Ray is real, raw and rough around the edges. She gets mixed up in a "get rich quick" scheme, all in the name of buying a new trailer home for her family. Misty Upham plays Lila Littlewolf, Ray's co-conspirator. Neither of them look like they are acting. Upham says so much by saying so little. Fantastic, even so bleak, of a film.
BITE: Stunning performances and an interesting plot. What more could you ask for?
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