Likely hard drive crash and apple support question

Hello, I have a late 2009 Macbook that has been reliable up until a few days ago.  It started to randomly freeze up and I was forced to manually restart.  Yesterday, it started freezing after signing in, making it unusable.  I tried safe booting but this also ended up freezing.  I managed to back up some data through recovery mode and tried to repair the HD with disk utility.  It said it worked the first time but the Mac continued to freeze.  I tried to repair again and it said that it couldn't do it.  Now the macbook only boots in recovery mode, whether I want it to or not.  I'm not entirely sure but I think the HD might be crashing/has crashed?  Or does this sound like something else?
I plan to take it in to be repaired but I'd like to know a bit about what to expect if I take it to an apple store.  I'm guessing they would take it in to see what they could do and then contact me when they had news?  If the hard drive has failed and needed to be replaced, is my late 2009 macbook something they would still do that for?  Obviously any apple care I had for this has expired so any estimates what this might cost?
A lot of info and questions I know, but I'd appreciate any input!
Thank you.

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