A very feeble attempt at affirmatie action

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Incredibly boring, Jennifer Lawrence is a no-talent hack. I have no idea how she even ever got a job acting, all her movies suck. No action, poor acting, porn movies have a more interesting plot. If I wanted to watch a bunch of fake-rednecks talk I can just go to a local bar. The only difference is that the bar has real rednecks. Half this movie is just watching her walk around. The other half is watching her talk to people. I will never watch another one of her movies.Pathetic.

Very difficult and unusual film ,about a girl who takes care of the sick mother, sister and brother. Her father is a drug dealer and he is killed. She is involved in all these events.

A wonderful movie to watch; the nature and the people in the movie are fascinating. But what was it all about? A view on people who live at the edge of society, living a dismal life of cruelty, crime, drugs, anti-law and suppression of women? Sure that is it but I sense more in this movie like in many other American movies about borderline people in the countryside. It seems the movie makers of these films are looking for something genuine American under all tha raw behavior: independence of modern urban life which tries to overpower them. The state and all what is represent. In this movie 'Winters Bone' the independence of the person, his or her house and property is prominent all the time and the means to defend them by guns. And there is despite the drugs which sooth the rawness and pain of this life an admiration for this independence as something untouchable and at the hearth of being American. That is strange cause it are these people who admire Trump in his outspoken right wing and racist policies. Would these film makers in their hearth also admire Trump and not the soft liberal attitudes of the millennials in the city? Those are mostly portrayed in the movies as failures, estranged people in their urban life. The hillbillies are in the end not failures but proud people.

It's been seven years since its release so i figured i'd give it a shot because Jennifer Lawrence is really great at her craft. Boy what a let down. The story is really depressing but on top of that it's really boring. Slow paced and boring. I figured this was done to really get into this young girls problem but the only thing that's prevalent is how these kids she's doing all of this for will probably grow up and be like everyone else in this horrible town. On top of that the accent is so hard to understand, it's not so much that they speak English as it is they chew the language and spit it on the floor. I might have enjoyed it more if more of the towns folk landed up dead. But they don't. Just a slow boring ride on a broken roller-coaster towards a really obvious ending. The mystery wasn't mysterious, the tension wasn't very tense and the family wan't worth saving. The acting was good, but what does that matter if the characters are just plain awful...?