Well, enjoy it while it lasts film-lovers. This is my last uber depressing movie for a while. Seriously - NO MORE - only cheesy, happy ,uplifting flicks for at least the next two weeks or so. "Frozen River" tells the story of a very desperate mother in a vortex of horrible situations. It's a wonder I even made it out of this movie without suicidal thoughts. Picture yourself in upstate New York in the dead of winter (yup, already - it's pretty bad isn't it?). You're in a dead end marriage to some gamblin' fool who takes all your savings and leaves you a week before Christmas - you've got two kids - you live very meagerly (to say the least) - and you've been trying to get a promotion for over 2 years at the K-Mart you've been working at. Then imagine for a moment, that in order to make payments on a rent-to-own television and your new mobile home you take up smuggling immigrants into the country. Now pretend that any or all of those scenarios goes awry just a smidgen more than it already is and there you are in the middle of "Frozen River" (and yes, quite literally our protagonist finds herself in a frozen river). I'm too depressed to even think much more about it. Just think happy thoughts. What's that? Something about clapping and a fairy gets its wings? Who am I kidding? Nothing at this moment is going to turn this frown upside down. Not Tinkerbell. Not whiskey. Not anything. Kudos to the optimistic fun-lovin' team that put this together. Clearly, you've been given a lot of Prozac to get through this production process because I could barely stand and hour and a half of it.
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