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After discovering her father put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared, 17-year-old Ree Dolly must confront the local criminal underworld and the harsh Ozark wilderness in order to to track down her father and save her family.
Theatrical
Jun 11, 2010
Box Office
$13.8M
Budget
$2.0M
Return
6.9x
DVD / Blu-ray
Oct 26, 2010
Theaters
1
Director
Debra Granik
Writers
Debra Granik, Anne Rosellini
Producers
Anne Rosellini, Alix Madigan, Michael McDonough
Music
Dickon Hinchliffe
Studio
Anonymous Content, Winter's Bone Productions
Themes
sheriff
based on novel or book
suspicion
missouri
teenage girl
poverty
struggle for survival
backwoods
sibling
mental illness
responsibility
uncle niece relationship
mountain country
bail bondsman
woman director
family crisis
drug manufacturing
crystal meth
rural setting
slow burn
drug usage
harsh
taking care of siblings
gutsy
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Quotes
See all →The Burden of Family Loyalty
Sonny
Are you wanting to leave us?
Ree
I'd be lost without the weight of you two on my back. I ain't goin anywhere.
Confrontation Over Accountability and Reputation
Sheriff Baskin
I didn't shoot the other night cuz you were there in the truck. He never backed me down.
Ree
It looked to me like he did.
Sheriff Baskin
Don't you let me hear that's a story gettin around.
Ree
I don't talk much about you, man. Ever.
Struggles of Loyalty and Shame
Ree
What I really can’t stand is how I feel so ashamed--for Dad.
Teardrop
Well, he loved y’all. That’s where he went weak. Lots of us can be tough, plenty tough enough, and do it for a long stretch, too.
Ree
But snitching.
Teardrop
For lots’n lots of years he wasn’t. He wasn’t, he wasn’t, and then one day he was.
Ree
You always have scared me.
Teardrop
That’s cause you’re smart.
Uncertainty Surrounds Jessup's Disappearance
Blond Milton
This right here is the last place me or anybody seen Jessup.
Ree
He never blew no lab before.
Blond Milton
I know, but something must have jumped wrong this time.
Ree
He's known for never fucking up labs or cooking bad batches. He's known for knowing what he's doing.
Blond Milton
Well, you cook long enough, this is bound to happen.
Ree
You're sayin dad's up there burnt to a crisp?
Blond Milton
That's what I'm saying.
Ree
I'm going up there for a look.
[starting to climb out of the truck]
