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Frozen River is a 2008 American crime drama film written and directed by Courtney Hunt in her feature directorial debut. Starring Melissa Leo and Misty Upham , the film follows two working-class mothers who team up to earn money by smuggling illegal immigrants from Canada to the United States .
Occupation (s) Film director, screenwriter. Spouse. Donald Harwood. Children. 1. Courtney Hunt (born 1964) is an American Film director and screenwriter. [2][3] She is best known for directing Frozen River, [4] which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, [5][6] and was nominated for two Academy Awards. [7]
Martha Ballard. Martha Moore Ballard (February 20, 1735 – June 9, 1812) was an American midwife and healer. Unusual for the time, Ballard kept a diary with thousands of entries over nearly three decades, which has provided historians with invaluable insight into colonial frontier-women's lives. [1] Ballard was made famous by the publication ...
Last Night in Twisted River is a 2009 novel by American writer John Irving, his 12th since 1968. It was first published (in English) in the Netherlands by De Bezige Bij on September 1, 2009, [1] in Canada by Knopf Canada on October 20, 2009, and in the United States by Random House on October 27, 2009. The novel spans five decades and is about ...
The River Thames frost fairs[1] were held on the tideway of the River Thames in London, England in some winters, starting at least as early as the late 7th century [2] until the early 19th century. Most were held between the early 17th and early 19th centuries during the period known as the Little Ice Age, when the river froze over most often ...
Frozen 2, stylized as Frozen II, is a 2019 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures as the sequel to Frozen (2013). Produced by Peter Del Vecho, the film was directed by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee from a screenplay by Lee. The directors co-wrote the story with Marc ...
Surviving 84 days in the Alaskan wilderness without many supplies or outside help. Leon Crane (August 5, 1919 – March 26, 2002), a native of Philadelphia, [1] was an American Army Air Corps lieutenant who was stationed at Ladd Field [a] in Alaska during World War II. During a routine test flight on December 21, 1943, the B-24 Liberator Crane ...
The Iron Tower. Dennis L. McKiernan 's The Iron Tower is a high fantasy saga set in his world of Mithgar. Originally published as a trilogy in 1984 (The Dark Tide, Shadows of Doom, and The Darkest Day), and later released as an omnibus (by Roc in 2000), the work was amongst his first.