Winter's Bone is a movie about a young girl named Ree growing up in some backwoods town (next door to where they filmed Deliverance?) who's drug dealer father has skipped town, put the deed to the house as bail money (or something like that) and unless she finds him she'll lose her house and her little brother and sister will end up in the foster care system. (her mother is too sick and mentally ill to care for them.)
The journey that she takes to find her father and the truth about where he is and why he's gone is so facinating because everyone around her- neighbors, law officials and family members alike- are all so shady and dangerous. None more so than her Uncle Teardrop (you just know he's spent a lot of time in prison by that name alone) played by John Hawkes- loved him in Deadwood!
John Hawkes as Teardrop. He aint no joke.
Her bravery and persistance is unwavering. She needs to find the truth and as a viewer I felt I need to know what was going to happen to this girl.
A really good, emotional movie!
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