Winter's bone a 2010 thriller filmed that feature some great actors Jennifer Lawrence (Ree Dolly), John Hawkes (Teardrop), Dale Dickey (Merab), Lauren Sweetser (Gail), Garret Dillahunt (Sheriff Baskin), Thump Milton (Ronnie Hall) and many other great actors. Jennifer Lawrence was nominated for best female actor and John Hawkes was nominated for best supporting actor. Although this movie wasn’t as good as the trailer portrayed it as and the actors didn’t win the awards, their dedication and outstanding acting in this movie showed paid off giving them the chance to receive awards as their acting careers starting to gain credit.
Only age seventeen when Ree Dolly is left with the responsibility of motherhood towards her two younger siblings. Unresponsive, mental ill mother and a criminal dad ree is left to face a challenge of doing all she can do to manage the household. Unwanted news is delivered to Ree from sheriff baskin regarding her father and how of he doesn’t show up to his court date they lose their home. With a house up for bond and her dad disappearance ree ends up setting out on a dangerous, risky quest to find him. With her family fate resting in her hands ree stops at nothing to find her father and save their house. On her journey to find her father ree challenges the code of silences to keep your mouth close and stay in your own lane.To find her father ree has to step into her father's footsteps following the trail into a world she wasn’t prepared for a world where violence frequently happens, meth is used commonly and people are sworn by codes of secrecy and loyalty towards the people they know and trust the most.
Having the same blood as you makes us family and should mean something ree had said, so she starts by talking to her meth addicted uncle teardrop and with a threaten voice and a violent solution to getting ree to shut her mouth she finds nothing she needs from her uncle and goes deeper into the world talking to people that worked with her dad and a crime boss thump milton. When thump refuses to talk to ree or give her any information the only things she’s been informed of is warnings to stay away and mind her business. When jessup ree dad doesn’t show up for his court many stories start to form that either he disappeared to skip his court date or that a fire broke out in a meth lab and he died. A bondsman Tate Taylor comes looking for jessup but ree tells him that her father must be dead because Dolly’s don’t run from their problems they face them. Still determined to find out the truth about what happen to her father ree returns to talk with milton and soon takes a beat down from the women in their family. Surprisingly teardrop shows up and rescued her informing her attackers that she will keep her mouth shut. While driving ree home teardrop lets her know that her father jessup was killed because he was going to tell the law about the other people involved with making meth. A few nights father one of ree attackers offers to take her to show her where her father body is they take her on a rowboat showing her where her father body lies. They tell her to put her hand in the freezing water so she may cut off her hands and show to the law as proof that he’s dead. Ree ends up taking the hands to the sheriff in a bag telling him that someone flung them onto the porch of her house so she wouldn’t tell on the people that actually brought her there.
The bondsman man tate ends up coming back to her house giving tree the cash portion of the bond that was supposed to be for her father but is now hers.
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