This movie allows you to drop into the world of people living on the edge of poverty in the Ozarks. Reminiscent of the film Deliverance . . . including the banjo. Appears to be a showcase movie for the cinematographer. Not much else.On the screen a 17 year-old young girl attempts to track down her father, who put the family house up for his bail bond and then disappears. If she fails, she and her two siblings (very nice kids), and a demented mother, will be turned out into the Ozark woods.
Appeared slow moving because all other aspects of the (so called) story were totally incoherent. People get beat-up, others are angry, others burn houses, father was in jail . . . without any explanation. It was as if three-quarters of the screenplay was left on the cutting room floor.
Cinematography and natural sets in the woods excellent. Acting could have been excellent also if a majority of the words were not mumbled and grunted in Ozark English.
Rated B by Sandy. She liked it because it provided a very realist view of a world that we never often see.
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