# Winter's Bone

Winter's Bone is a 2010 film about an unflinching Ozark Mountain girl who hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep her family intact.
    Directed by Debra Granik. Written by Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini, based on the novel by Daniel Woodrell.

## Dialogue

    Sonny: Maybe they'll share some of that with us.
    Ree: That could be.
    Sonny: Maybe we should ask.
    Ree: Never ask for what oughta be offered.
    Satterfield: I'm Mike Satterfield, A1 Bonds.
    Ree: What is it you want?
    Satterfield: We hold the bond on Jessup Dolly. Now he's a runner, it looks like.
    Ree: Dad ain't no runner.
    Satterfield: He didn't show for court. That makes him a runner.
    Blond Milton: Ree, I know losing Jessup leaves y'all hurting over there. I know it's a lot to handle.
    Ree: We'll make do.
    Blond Milton: Sonya and me talked about it. We feel we could take Sonny off your hands. Not Ashlee, I don't reckon, but we could take Sonny.
    Ree: You what?
    Blond Milton: We could take him and raise him up the rest of the way.
    Ree: My ass you will.
    Blond Milton: We'd raise that boy way better than you and that nutjob mama of yours can. Maybe on down the line, we'd take Ashlee, too.
    Ree: You go straight to hell, you son of a bitch. Sonny and Ashlee will die living in a cave with me and mama before they spend one night with you.
    Gail: [about borrowing her husband's truck] He said no.
    Ree: Did you tell him I’d spring for gas?
    Gail: I told him. He still won’t.
    Ree: Why not?
    Gail: He never says why not to me, Ree. He just says no.
    Ree: Man, that’s so sad to hear you say he won’t let you do something, and then you don’t do it.
    Gail: It’s different once you’re married.
    Ree: It really must be. Cause you ain’t never used to eat no shit.
    Teardrop: You ought not do that. Don’t go running after Jessup. Show or don’t show that choice is up to the one going to jail, not you.
    Ree: You know where he’s at, don’t you?
    Teardrop: Where a man’s at ain’t necessarily for you to know neither.
    Ree: But you do...
    [Teardrop abruptly shoots a warning look at Ree]
    Teardrop: I ain’t seen him.
    Ree: Could be running around with Little Arthur and them, you think?
    Teardrop: Don’t you ever go down around Little Arthur’s asking them people about shit they ain’t offering to talk about. That’s a real good way to end up et by hogs, or wishing you was.
    Ree: We’re all related ain’t we?
    Teardrop: Our relations get watered kinda thin between here and Little Arthur’s.
    Victoria: You know all those people, Teardrop. You could ask.
    Teardrop: Shut up.
    Victoria: None of them’s gonna be in a great big hurry to tangle with you.
    Teardrop: I said shut up once already with my mouth.
    Ree: Jesus, Dad’s your only brother.
    Teardrop: You think I forgot that? Hmm? Jessup and me run together for coming on forty years but I don’t know where he’s at, and I ain’t going to go around asking after him neither.
    Little Arthur: You want a line?
    Ree: No.
    Little Arthur: You wanna blow some smoke?
    Ree: No.
    [Little Arthur slaps the table and stands up]
    Little Arthur: Then I guess I got nothing for you. [He waves his hand to dismiss them] Go on!
    Megan: Don’t tell nobody it was me who told you this, okay? But you’re going to have to go on up the hill and ask for a talk with Thump Milton. Now, I hope he’ll talk with you - he generally won’t.
    Ree: That man scares me way more than the rest.
    Megan: Well, scared ain’t a bad way to be about him, neither, hon. He’s my own granpaw, and I still make damn sure I never piss him off none.
    Merab: You ain’t here for trouble, are you?
    Ree: No, ma’am.
    Merab: Cause one of my nephews is Buster Leroy, and didn’t he shoot your daddy one time?
    Ree: Yes’m, but that ain’t got nothing to do with me. They settled all that theirselves, I think.
    Merab: Shooting him likely settled it. What is it you want?
    Ree: I got a real bad need to talk with Thump.
    Merab: And he ain’t got no need to talk to you.
    [Merab turns away towards her doorway]
    Ree: But I need to. I really, really got to ma’am. Please!
    [Merab turns around to face Ree]
    Ree: Some of our blood at least is the same. Ain’t that s’posed to mean somethin’ - isn’t that what is always said?
    Merab: [irritated] Ain’t you got no men could do this?
    Ree: No, Ma’am, I don’t.
    Merab: He ain’t likely to have time for you, child.
    Ree: I’ve got to talk to him. If he don’t know, nobody does.
    Merab: Nope. Talking just causes witnesses. And he don’t want for any of those.
    Ree: I’ll wait.
    Merab: You need to get yourself on home.
    Merab: Thump knows you were in the valley, child. With Megan. And at Little Arthur’s. He knows what you want to ask, and he don’t want to hear it.
    Ree: And that’s it? He ain’t gonna say nothing to me?
    Merab: If you’re listening, child, you got your answer.
    Ree: So, I guess come the nut-cutting, blood don’t really mean shit to the big man. Am I understanding that right?
    Merab: Don’t you dare. Don’t! I want you to listen to me, child. You need to turn around, and get yourself on home. Don’t you make me come out here and tell you again!
    Satterfield: Look, I don't want to kick your dad's ass, all right? I just want to keep the judge off mine.
    Ree: Dad's dead. He didn't show for court 'cause he's lyin' dead somewhere.
    Satterfield: When was the last time you saw him?
    Ree: A couple weeks.
    Satterfield: Who's he running around with? Where they all hanging out?
    Ree: He doesn't tell me that stuff, sir.
    Satterfield: Now, you know I got the legal right to go in there hunting the man, anyplace I want.
    Ree: I know you'd be wasting your time and pissing me off. Jessup Dolly is dead. He’s lying in a crappy grave somewhere or become piles of shit in a hog pen. Maybe he’s been left out plain in the open, but wherever he is, he’s there dead.
    Satterfield: And you know this how?
    Ree: You must’ve heard what Dolly’s are, ain’t you, mister?
    Satterfield: Well, I’ve heard what some are anyhow, and I have bonded a few.
    Ree: I’m a Dolly, bred’n buttered, and that’s how I know Dad’s dead.
    Satterfield: How old are you?
    Ree: Seventeen.
    Megan: What are we ever gonna do with you, baby girl?
    Ree: Kill me, I guess.
    Megan: That idea has been said already. Got any others?
    Ree: Help me. Ain’t nobody said that idea yet, have they?
    Megan: I tried to help you some before, and this is what come of it.
    Teardrop: What Jessup done was against our ways, he knew it. I know it, and I ain’t raised no stink at all about whatever became of him. But she ain’t my brother. She’s about all the close family I got left, so I’ll be collecting her now and carrying her on out of here to home. That suit you, Thump?
    Thump Milton: You’re gonna stand for her, are you?
    Teardrop: If she does wrong, you can put it on me.
    Thump Milton: She’s now yours to answer for.
    Teardrop: This is a girl who ain’t gonna tell nobody nothing.
    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: [starting to climb out of the truck] I'm going up there for a look.
    Blond Milton: [pulling her back] No! That shit's poison. It'll rip the skin off your bones.
    Ree: If dad's up there, I'm bringing him home to bury.
    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.
    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.
    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.

## Cast

* Jennifer Lawrence - Ree Dolly
* John Hawkes - Teardrop Dolly
* Lauren Sweetser - Gail Lockrum
* Garret Dillahunt - Sheriff Baskin
* Dale Dickey - Merab
* Ronnie Hall - Thump Milton
* Sheryl Lee - April
* Kevin Breznahan - Little Arthur
* Shelley Waggener - Sonya
* Isaiah Stone - Sonny Dolly
* Ashlee Thompson - Ashlee Dolly
* Tate Taylor - Mike Satterfield
* Cody Shiloh Brown - Floyd

## External links

* Winter's Bone quotes at the Internet Movie Database
* Winter's Bone at Rotten Tomatoes
* The official Winter's Bone site