Winters Bone (2010)

Ree Dolly a young woman who has had to grow up fast. She has two younger siblings to care for. Her father is missing, and her mother is an invalid. Ree is keeping the family together in their home in a remote corner of the Missouri Ozarks. She must find him before they lose their house to the state, she hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep her family intact.

Rating- 7.3/10 

Director: Debra Granik 

Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes and Garret Dillahunt

Been given an 18 certificate due to drug use, violence and offensive language  

Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Drama 

NEGATIVE REVIEW

Are you serious?

"I watched this because people were saying how GREAT it was. They kept mentioning how beautiful the story is, how amazing all the characters are. OH MY GOD it couldn't be further from the truth. This movie is atrocious. I wasted 100 minutes of my life watching this horrible excuse of a movie, time which I will never get back. I absolutely HATE this incredibly shallow boring predictable movie. The characters are all very one dimensional. The kind of people nobody cares about, I couldn't sympathize with any of the characters in any way, I hated them all. How can anyone make a 100 minute movie of a plot so shallow? I am so enraged by this movie I can't write very well. I feel a deep sense of loss for the time I will never have back"

POSITIVE REVIEW

So Real, So Good

"The overall theme of blood ties and hierarchy were so powerful and surreal that it's hard to believe there is actually a sub culture that inspired this movie. The women are subordinate to the men, but everyone is held accountable by someone. The women have a strict hierarchy but ultimately stick together and support each other. It's a complicated weave of loyalty and balance, that could easily be misrepresented in a movie as satire. In Winter's Bone it's handled expertly and instead becomes an incredible backdrop for an otherwise simple premise.

Also, I was shocked to see that these characters were actually professional actors and not just backwoods folk they gathered to play some of the parts. This is a testimony to not only the incredible acting, but the incredible make-up and wardrobe as well. I was thoroughly convinced that the actors were all meth addicts living in the Missouri hills.

The best movie I've seen this year by far."

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