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Winter's Bone

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Winter's Bone

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Oscar-nominated thriller starring Jennifer Lawrence and John Hawkes. Seventeen-year-old Ree Dolly lives in a poor rural backwater in the Ozark Mountains and struggles to look after her mentally ill mother and younger brother and sister. So when she finds out that her drug-dealing father has skipped bail after putting their house up as collateral, she's forced to go looking for him. Her dogged investigations lead to warnings, threats and, ultimately, violence.

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A star rating of 4 out of 5.

Damon Wise

The dilapidated American shanty towns of the Ozarks region provide the setting for this excellent, award-winning thriller. Jennifer Lawrence (who's since gone on to win a best actress Oscar for Silver Linings Playbook) gives a superb performance in her first starring role as Ree Dolly, an older-than-her-years teenager who is forced to take charge of her flaky mother and much younger siblings when her drug-dealing father jumps bail and goes on the run. As he had put the family home up as collateral for his bail, Ree makes it her mission to find him before they are evicted. However, she uncovers a local conspiracy of silence and finds that blood ties mean nothing in an area swamped with poverty, where the only industry is the production of the lethal illegal high, crystal meth. The film never flinches from the ugliness of its details - Ree guts and cooks squirrel for her starving family - but Lawrence's mature and inspiring determination makes this much, much more than a grim skid-row whodunnit.

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Cast

rolenameRee DollyJennifer LawrenceTeardropJohn HawkesLittle ArthurKevin BreznahanMerabDale DickeySheriff BaskinGarret DillahuntAprilSheryl LeeGailLauren SweetserMike SatterfieldTate TaylorSonnyIsaiah StoneAshleeAshlee ThompsonConnieValerie RichardsSonyaShelley WaggenerBlond MiltonWilliam WhiteMeganCasey MacLarenThump MiltonRon "Stray Dog" Hall

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rolenameDirectorDebra Granik

Details

Theatrical distributor

Artificial Eye

Released on

2010-09-17

Languages

English

Guidance

Contains violence, swearing and drug abuse.

Available on

DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Colour

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