Winters Bone
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. In order to protect her family from eviction, she must hunt down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep her family intact.
11 February 1988, Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA
30 September 1964, St. Joseph, Missouri, USA
24 November 1968, New York City, New York, USA
24 November 1964, Castro Valley, California, USA
July 11, 2012
Peyton Place meets Deliverance in a meth lab.
August 15, 2011
Jennifer Lawrence is dazzling as the film's protagonist as she struggles to uncover the truth between her addict father's disappearance.
July 28, 2010
This unblinking look at America's Red State Crystal Meth Belt is an instant Southern Gothic classic.
May 21, 2011
Gritty and real...
June 25, 2010
With Winter's Bone, Granik has morphed from a director worth watching to one who demands our undivided attention. She's got mine.
September 15, 2010
Granik balances the pace and intrigue of a mystery thriller with total compassion for Ree, played with much skill by Lawrence.
May 12, 2017
Beneath the fierce naturalism of the stark chilly/beautiful imagery and tough performances is a rural noir in an unforgiving world and Granik tells the story with great skill.
July 23, 2010
Winter's Bone is a genuine triumph, a great movie with astounding performances so natural, so genuine, that you forget it's a movie.
June 12, 2012
In moments of confrontation [Jennifer Lawrence's Ree] is as fearsome as Sigourney Weaver in Aliens, taking on monsters to protect the small and the vulnerable.
January 31, 2011
Debra Granik's bleak little film is as tough, unflinching and fascinating as the characters who eke out a life amid its cold, gray hills.
June 30, 2011
Winter's Bone is an absorbing and socially conscious piece of work, underwritten by the constant threat of violence.
