Desperation Knows No Borders
A financially strapped mother joins a Mohawk woman to smuggle illegal immigrants into the United States.
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Contemporary, earnest, grave and classical in form.
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Aug 20247/10
Well it's certainly aptly titled as we head to a northern New York reservation where the Mohawk people live on the border with Quebec. There's precisely no opportunity here, so many of the locals really only subsist from hand to mouth on government handouts. "Ray" (Melissa Leo) has two young children; a hapless, gambling, husband and lives in a dilapidated motor home from which they hope to soon escape. The husband does a bunk though, and that leaves her in the lurch and struggling to pay the bills. At this point, serendipity takes a hand in her life with a chance meeting with "Lila" (Misty Upham). She's also a single parent who is also struggling to make ends meet. Initially, their meeting does not go well - certainly not for the bloodied "Ray" - but their communal needs quickly see them working together to help with some smuggling across the now frozen St. Lawrence River. What are they smuggling? People! That's also adding to the dangers of their illicit operations as the police and immigration authorities know what is going on, and are determined to clamp down. The women have goals in mind to improve their lives, but can their good fortune hold against the cold, the terrain and
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Cast
- Melissa LeoRay Eddy
- Misty UphamLila Littlewolf
- Charlie McDermottTJ
- John CanoeBernie Littlewolf
- Jay KlaitzGuy Versailles
- Dylan CarusonaJimmy
- James ReillyRicky
- Michael O'KeefeTrooper Finnerty
- Mark Boone JuniorJacques Bruno
- Betty OuyangChinese woman
Crew
- Courtney HuntDirector
- Courtney HuntWriter
- Reed MoranoDirector of Photography
- Peter GolubOriginal Music Composer
- Shahzad IsmailyOriginal Music Composer
- Kate WilliamsEditor
- Heather RaeProducer
- Chip HourihanProducer
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