All this, particularly the connection with reservations, is dramatized in a 2008 film, "Frozen River".

A main actress in the film, Misty Upham, was found dead at the bottom of a cliff in 2014. The medical examiner's report stated that the manner of her death could not be determined.

In 2017, her father alleged that she was raped by a member of Harvey Weinstein's production team at a Golden Globes ceremony, while others watched and cheered the rapist on.