2010 · drama · crime · indie
Winter's Bone
Directed by Debra Granik1h 41m2010
After discovering her father put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared, 17-year-old Ree Dolly must confront the local criminal underworld and the harsh Ozark wilderness in order to to track down her father and save her family.
Our read: Winter's Bone (2010) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded drama · crime · indie entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, measured, extreme drama / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
- measured
- intense
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