Winter's Bone

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Winter's Bone

R

2010

1h 39m

Drama

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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. Informed by the sheriff that their father put their home up for bond and then disappeared, Ree sets out on a dangerous quest to find him. Her entire family's fate now in her hands, Ree challenges her outlaw kin's code of silence and risks her life to learn her father's fate.

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Bleak, haunting, and yet still somehow hopeful, Winter's Bone is writer-director Debra Granik's best work yet -- and it boasts an incredible, starmaking performance from Jennifer Lawrence.

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Jim Schembri

The Age (Australia)

Nov 17, 2010

3/5

A rewarding, richly detailed exploration of the strength of character required when confronted by ugly truths.

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Charlotte O'Sullivan

London Evening Standard

Sep 22, 2010

4/5

The Coen Brothers' O Brother Where Art Thou? was the last film to make such delirious use of mountain music. The rest of the world can start drooling over Lawrence. I'm gonna git me a copy of that soundtrack.

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Anthony Quinn

Independent (UK)

Sep 17, 2010

5/5

The film, adapted by director Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini from the novel by Daniel Woodrell, establishes a formidable tension between mystery and matter-of-factness.

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Eddie Harrison

film-authority.com

Nov 3, 2026

4/5

...chills to the bone because of the way that Granik and cinematographer Michael McDonough shoot the bleak panoramas of Ozark, creating a unique environment for this story of a young girl’s journey to adulthood in a world dominated by hostile men….

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Noah Berlatsky

Splice Today

Jun 11, 2024

Granik and Lawrence paint a gray world in which the patriarchy is indifferent at best and actively hostile at worst to women’s aspirations and stories.

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Nadia Dalimonte

Next Best Picture

Jun 10, 2024

8/10

What makes “Winter’s Bone” a revelation is not necessarily the story itself but the tonal and atmospheric understanding of this world that the cast and crew bring.

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Alain E

@AlainE Nov 3, 2026

Poverty porn. I remember I liked it when I first watched it, but this time I was unable to finish it.

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Jeramima P

@Jeramima Oct 16, 2026

It's another Hollywood movie earnestly portraying the rural poor and their misery. The direction and cinematography have all the subtlety of a Hallmark movie, but it's all doom and gloom with no smiling hero to the rescue. Jennifer Lawrence makes the best of the awkward writing. "There's things happening and I don't know what to do." It's a one-note performance but she puts her heart into it. Most of the other actors are hamming it up as ignorant violent southerners. The main narrative is the young woman's search for her deadbeat father. Is he alive or dead? Will she find him? There's just not enough energy in the plot for us to care.

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Giorgio G

@GioBlob Oct 9, 2026

Strange that I came across this movie only now, 16 years after it came out. Well, it's a weary story about family ties and feuds, tending into extreme violence without ever showing it. It's all hidden from view, talked about, but never shown, though permanently present as the whole family apparently is involved in crime, from meth labs to hell knows what. I never cared for Jennifer Lawrence, but in this movie, age 19 playing a 17 year old teenager, she is quite surprising. The movie, in its whole doesn't say much, but at least it makes on think. At least about how some folks can live in conditions like these. Not very impressive, but also not a complete waste of time. 4/10 points.

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bruce F

@bruce999 Aug 4, 2026

a woman tries to pay bills, and find her father. good acting, but kind of awful, at times but believable. it's worth a view

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Sunsun X

@sunsunxs88 Jul 13, 2026

Realistic and beautiful

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Jim W.

@weaverbooks May 11, 2026

Bleak and so slooooow. Not sure how that was nominated for four Oscars. Lawrence was good but not sure how this was rated so high.

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Synopsis

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. Informed by the sheriff that their father put their home up for bond and then disappeared, Ree sets out on a dangerous quest to find him. Her entire family's fate now in her hands, Ree challenges her outlaw kin's code of silence and risks her life to learn her father's fate.

Director: Debra Granik
Producer: Anne Rosellini, Alix Madigan
Screenwriter: Debra Granik, Anne Rosellini
Distributor: Roadside Attractions
Production Co: Anonymous Content, Winter's Bone Prods.
Rating: R (Some Drug Material|Language|Violent Content)
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 11, 2010, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 19, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA): $6.5M
Runtime: 1h 39m

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