Winter’s Bone
Director: Debra Granik
Genre: Thriller, Indie, Film adaptation, Mystery, Drama
Year: 2010
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language
Starring: Dale Dickey, Tate Taylor, John Hawkes, Sheryl Lee, Jennifer Lawrence, Garret Dillahunt, Lauren Sweetser, Shelley Waggener, Kevin Breznahan, Isaiah Stone, Ashlee Thompson, William White, Casey MacLaren, Valerie Richards, Beth Domann, Cody Brown, Ronnie Hall, Cinnamon Schultz, Brandon Gray, Charlotte Jeane Lucas, Ramona Blair
"Deep in the Ozark Mountains, clans live by a code of conduct that no one dares defy—until an intrepid teenage girl has no other choice. When Ree Dolly's crystal-meth-making father skips bail and goes missing, her family home is on the line. Unless she finds him, she and her young siblings and disabled mother face destitution. In a heroic quest, Ree traverses the county to confront her kin, break their silent collusion, and bring her father home.
With thrilling tension, Winter’s Bone depicts an archetypal rite of passage from adolescence to adulthood. Only this time, the young warrior is a girl. As our heroine braves immoveable obstacles, she redefines the notion of family loyalty and, in the process, discovers her own power. The spare precision of Debra Granik’s direction is effortlessly profound. Stunningly genuine performances and exquisite visual details capture the textures and rhythms of a world where the mythic and the naturalistic intermingle."
Quoting the description from the 2010 Sundance Film festival site.
Winter's Bone is a 2010 American independent drama film, an adaptation of Daniel Woodrell's 2006 novel of the same name. The film was written and directed by Debra Granik and stars Jennifer Lawrence. It explores the interrelated themes of close and distant family ties, the power and speed of gossip, patriarchy, self-sufficiency, and rural poverty in the Ozarks as they are changed by the pervasive underworld of illegal methamphetamine labs. The film won a number of awards, including the Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic Film at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. It received four 2011 Academy Award nominations: Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor.
Ree Dolly (Jennifer Lawrence), 17, looks after her catatonic mother; her brother, Sonny (12), and her sister, Ashlee (6). Every day, Ree makes sure her siblings eat, all the while teaching them basic survival skills like hunting and cooking. The family is very poor - as an incident where the family dog is fed with stale food demonstrates (one of several incidents where someone is thrown a "bone"). Ree's father, Jessup, hasn't been home for a long time and his whereabouts are unknown. He is out on bail
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