The opening shot of the quietly gripping drama "Frozen River" ends with a close-up of actress Melissa Leo, whose face resembles a Depression-era Dorothea Lange portrait in its hard grief. As Ray Eddy, a single mother of two living in a trailer in Upstate New York, Leo delivers a tough, utterly mesmerizing performance as a woman whose desperation to do right by her kids sends her on a journey all the more astonishing for being so believable. Abandoned by her husband, a compulsive gambler, and ignored for a promotion at the dollar store where she works, Ray ... (more)