Winter's Bone

AroView: The celebrated art-house thriller set in the Ozark Mountains follows a teenage girl (Jennifer Lawrence) as she desperately searches for her drug-dealing father who has jumped bail.

As the title suggests, there’s little sunshine or comfort to be found in this neck of woods, as a loose conspiracy of community members emerge as variously despairing, paranoid or menacing. The source material (a novel by Daniel Woodrell) provides solid backbone on which director Debra Granik gets to construct a sure and dramatic sense of place, but its Jennifer Lawrence’s performance that registers most strongly, ahead of a cast of convincingly portrayed hillbillies (for whom subtitles may be required).

“This unblinking look at America’s Red State Crystal Meth Belt is an instant Southern Gothic classic.” ~Orlando Sentinel