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Winter's Bone
Why this pick
A young woman shoulders a family crisis through a tightly wound, wintry rural noir, with the same unsentimental attention to poverty, female resolve, and escalating moral danger.
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MOVIE2008 1h 37m USA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The film is set shortly before Christmas in the North Country, New York of Upstate New York, near the ''Akwesasne'' ('Where the Partridge Drums') St. Regis Mohawk Reservation and the border crossing to Cornwall, Ontario. Ray Eddy (Melissa Leo) is a discount store clerk struggling to raise two sons with her husband, a compulsive gambler who has disappeared with the funds she had earmarked to finance the purchase of a Mobile home. While searching for him, she encounters Lila Littlewolf (Misty Upham), a Mohawk nation Bingo (U.S.) employee who is driving his car, which she claims she found abandoned with the keys in the ignition at the local bus station. The two women, who have both fallen on hard economic times, form a desperate and uneasy alliance and begin trafficking illegal immigrants from Canada into the United States across the frozen St. Lawrence River for $1,200 each.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Melissa Leo
Ray Eddy
Misty Upham
Mark Boone Junior
Jacques Bruno
Betty Ouyang
Chinese woman
Charlie McDermott
TJ
Jay Klaitz
Guy Versailles
Michael O'Keefe
Trooper Finnerty