Winter’s Bone Director Debra Granik’s Next Project is for Kids

Winter’s Bone” is essentially a mob film set in the rural Missouri Ozarks. It’s a great movie, filled with great performances and shockingly uncliched depictions of America’s favorite laughingstock demographic: rural mountain people. The movie, screenplay co-adaptor Debra Granik and lead actress Jennifer Lawrence earned their Oscar nominations.
Granik, who directed the movie, was snubbed in that category. She created a movie where there’s love and self-awareness that you don’t see associated with the Ozarks. In Garnik’s movie, trash is strewn across the lawn for a reason.
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