Director: Debra Granik
Cast: Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Kevin Breznahan, Dale Dickey, Garret Dillahunt, Sheryl Lee and Tate Taylor.
Narrative Feature: 100 Minutes [US], English, 2010
Screening: February 11, 8:30pm, Miller Theater, Columbia University
Following the movie, Director and Co-writer Debra Granik and Producer and Co-writer, Anne Rosellini will discuss the film with Anne Thompson of Thompson on Hollywood.
Synopsis: In this moving story based on the novel by Daniel Woodrell, seventeen-year-old Ree Dolly played by Jennifer Lawrence sets out to track down her father, who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails, Ree and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. Challenging her outlaw kin’s code of silence and risking her life, Ree hacks through the lies, evasions and threats offered up by her relatives and begins to piece together the truth. An extraordinary story, shot in the Ozarks that remains true to life in this part of the country.
