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Winter's Bone

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Faced with an unresponsive mother and a criminal father, Ozark teenager Ree Dolly does what she can to manage the household and take care of her two younger siblings. Informed by the sheriff that their father put their home up for bond and then disappeared, Ree sets out on a dangerous quest to find him. Her entire family's fate now in her hands, Ree challenges her outlaw kin's code of silence and risks her life to learn her father's fate.
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Bleak, haunting, and yet still somehow hopeful, Winter's Bone is writer-director Debra Granik's best work yet -- and it boasts an incredible, starmaking performance from Jennifer Lawrence.

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Jim Schembri The Age (Australia) 11/17/2010
3/5
A rewarding, richly detailed exploration of the strength of character required when confronted by ugly truths. Go to Full Review
Charlotte O'Sullivan London Evening Standard 09/22/2010
4/5
The Coen Brothers' O Brother Where Art Thou? was the last film to make such delirious use of mountain music. The rest of the world can start drooling over Lawrence. I'm gonna git me a copy of that soundtrack. Go to Full Review
Anthony Quinn Independent (UK) 09/17/2010
5/5
The film, adapted by director Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini from the novel by Daniel Woodrell, establishes a formidable tension between mystery and matter-of-factness. Go to Full Review
Noah Berlatsky Splice Today 06/11/2024
Granik and Lawrence paint a gray world in which the patriarchy is indifferent at best and actively hostile at worst to women’s aspirations and stories. Go to Full Review
Nadia Dalimonte Next Best Picture 06/10/2024
8/10
What makes “Winter’s Bone” a revelation is not necessarily the story itself but the tonal and atmospheric understanding of this world that the cast and crew bring. Go to Full Review
Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review 08/09/2023
3.5/4
This is an engrossing film, one about the different ways in which people react to impossible situations. And without becoming hackneyed or corny, the story offers a moving solution when it could have so easily fallen into a trap of hopelessness. Go to Full Review
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Silke B @Silke1 Dec 5 Not exactly a ‘up’ film, this dismal slice of what life is like at the bottom of the social pecking order is raised to a form of art rarely attempted in popular movies, catapulting relative unknown, John Hawkes, elevating him to leading man status (whose work, I was heretofore unfamiliar) It’s the first glimpse of the massive talent of Jennifer Lawrence in a stark world with which few are familiar See more aldiano a Nov 11 Jennifer Lawrence should have won Oscar for Best Actress in this film. What a raw talent. See more Devin T Aug 3 I knew from watching this film that JLaw would be born a star. The bluish tones of this film and the rural setting truly buffer the storytelling. 1 Top notch dramatic thriller! See more Tim F Jul 5 One of the most American movies i have ever seen. California and New York ain't the USA u know. See more Geo3 F Jul 5 I don’t understand why this film is rated so high; Its a drama film, but with no suspense this feels more like a TV show or an episode of a TV show then an actual movie. The performances were solid, but not amazing once again i don’t understand why this film was considered as a best picture film in the early 2010s. Overall, I can’t recommend this film unless you have some time off. See more Madam D @Madam1948 Jun 24 Insulting to country people that an entire extended family would be drug dealers & kill each other over it. Jennifer Lawrence did some very good acting. See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis Faced with an unresponsive mother and a criminal father, Ozark teenager Ree Dolly does what she can to manage the household and take care of her two younger siblings. Informed by the sheriff that their father put their home up for bond and then disappeared, Ree sets out on a dangerous quest to find him. Her entire family's fate now in her hands, Ree challenges her outlaw kin's code of silence and risks her life to learn her father's fate.
Director
Debra Granik
Producer
Anne Rosellini, Alix Madigan
Screenwriter
Debra Granik, Anne Rosellini
Distributor
Roadside Attractions
Production Co
Anonymous Content, Winter's Bone Prods.
Rating
R (Some Drug Material|Language|Violent Content)
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jun 11, 2010, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Dec 19, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA)
$6.5M
Runtime
1h 39m
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