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‘Winter’s Bone’ is a new art-house movie that is getting rave reviews.   It is adapted from Daniel Woodrell’s eighth novel of the same name.   Set in the Missouri Osarks, ‘Winter’s Bone’ tells a grim tale of a daughter’s search for her meth- cookin’ dad who has missed his court appearance thus putting the family home in jeopardy.

In an 2007 interview with Barbara Peters of Poison Pen Press and Bookstore, Woodrell, a crime writer known for his sleazy characters and white trash settings, reveals his fondness for 30′s and 40′s noir and first person voice.  “It’s a voice that allows my character’s ambition to do something that they know they shouldn’t be doing.  Something that in the end tests their fate and character and brings dramatic forces to bare.”

6/18/10 Seattle Times:   ‘Winter’s Bone’ made in part by Seattleites, hits it big on art-house movie circuit.