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(2010)
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When her father jumps bail, 17 year-old Ree Dolly faces losing the home put up as his bond, where she lives with her invalid mother and younger siblings. With no choice but to track him down in the harsh environs of the Ozark mountains, she looks to his friends and relatives for clues, only to be met with threats and a hostile wall of silence. Undeterred, Ree risks her life to piece together the shocking truth.
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Winter's Bone review by PV
Different and worth watching
(2) of (4) members found this review helpful.
I enjoyed this film. It's so unlike so many US films, and I enjoyed it for just that, for a start. I liked the sinister tone - though the country hick scenarios are perhaps steroetyped a bit too much. I liked the way the film had much of the colour sucked out of it - like the nordic addict hillbilly characters' faces! It drags a little in the middle, but generally keeps the pace going OK: the plot points come dead on cue and power the plot along in a way movies like this usually fail to do. I liked the gruesome scenes too - believable, up to a point. The one thing that irritated me - and this is common in movies filmed by women - is the way all the male characters are portrayed as baddies and all the women as goodies - gentle little things who are such victims of men and suffer so much. Sexist is the word! Patronising too. The female equivalent of a male director only using women as eye candy. But anyhow, it's WAY better than the kind of silly romantic 'comedies' most female directors seem to make. Different and worth watching.
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Winter's Bone review by Corinthian
Miserable Winter
(1) of (2) members found this review helpful.
A slow start and the pace doesn't improve greatly throughout but quite an interesting film nevertheless. Quite chilling to think that people could act in the way that they are portrayed in this film or live in such conditions but they probably exist.
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Winter's Bone review by JD
Good low budget
(0) of (1) members found this review helpful.
The subject matter is pretty disheartening, a community driven by drug making and drug use because it is so utterly desolate. Governed by murderers who threaten police and beat up single mothers trying to find their father.
The acting wins through and transforms this from a potentially awful experience to a personal one filled with determination and endurance.
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Rated: 3.2 stars out of 5 from 244 ratings
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BFI Classification:
Suitable only for persons of 15 years and over
| Release Date: | 31/01/2011 |
| Production Year: | 2010 |
| Run Time: | 95 minutes |
| Aspect Ratio: | Widescreen 1.78:1 / 16:9 |
| Format: | Pal |
| Colour: | Colour |
Special Features:
- The making of Winter's bone
- Deleted scenes
- Alternate opening
- Theatrical trailer
- Music video "Hardscrabble Elegy" by Dickon Hinchcliffe
