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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Critics Consensus

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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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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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

Aug 9, 2023

3.5/4

This is an engrossing film, one about the different ways in which people react to impossible situations. And without becoming hackneyed or corny, the story offers a moving solution when it could have so easily fallen into a trap of hopelessness.

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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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Gi S

@Gistevenn Apr 2, 2026

A sad movie to watch and it made a j law fan out of me.

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thiago S

@Thiagostone Mar 5, 2026

Filme fraco, o roteiro é fraco, as cenas são fracas, a história é fraca, o elenco é fraco, e ninguém ajuda a melhorar o filme, os personagens são fracos, e o filme deveria ter cenas bem melhores e relevantes, para fazer o filme ser bom

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Silke B

@Silke1 Dec 5, 2025

Not exactly a ‘up’ film, this dismal slice of what life is like at the bottom of the social pecking order is raised to a form of art rarely attempted in popular movies, catapulting relative unknown, John Hawkes, elevating him to leading man status (whose work, I was heretofore unfamiliar) It’s the first glimpse of the massive talent of Jennifer Lawrence in a stark world with which few are familiar

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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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