Current gem of the art house circuit and winner of the Sundance Film Festival, Winter's Bone tells the bleak story of a seventeen year old whose father jumps bail after putting up the family home as collateral. With the bonds people ready to take their house, the young girl sets out to find her father against the backdrop of a small Missouri (pronounced Misery by one moviegoer) community. That such a place can exist challenges credulity, but there it is, bold as brass. Loved the dark look of the movie and the documentary feel to it, but at heart, it's a noir detective story told in the backwoods where drugrunners have their own code of family and honor (kinda like in the old moonshining days, except now it's crystal meth instead of hooch). Grisly finale. Definitely adding this to my dvd collection. See it on the big screen Worth a watch.

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