Well, I have now seen Winter's Bone. It is a slow-boiled mystery set in the gritty, live-by-the-land Ozarks. The story paints a very dark picture of how a criminal brotherhood has ties into the lives of everyone who lives there -- for bad and for good. The got-your-back nature of the hill people reminded me of a screenplay I wrote several years ago entitled Millers Ridge (A story about a young man who is wrongly accused of murdering his girlfriend, but finds support from the people of the town.)
Winter's Bone is a well made film worthy of being viewed, but I am afraid it is just too emotionally dour to have a chance come Oscar night. Though the young star in this film, Jennifer Lawrence, is sure to have nothing but good things happen in her career for some time.
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