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Melissa Leo brings
stoicism and pugnacity to the part of Ray, a woman left
alone looking after two kids in a trailer park when her
gambling-addicted husband takes off with thefamily savings.
All she can find of him is his abandoned car, which has been
stolen by
Lila Littlewolf, played by
Misty Upham, a Mohawk woman and fellow single mom living on
a Native American reservation on the US-Canadian border.
After an angry confrontation, Lila points out how she and
Ray could go into business together: running illegal
immigrants into America across the frozen St Lawrence river
in the boot of this
very car. Pundits at this
year's Oscar season were caught off-balance by two
nominations - for best original screenplay and best actress
- for a film way off everyone's radar
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