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Missing Fathers

‘Winter's Bone’ & ‘The Kids Are All Right’

Richard Alleva

In movies like Deliverance and The Hills Have Eyes, the heroes make a wrong turn and wind up in hillbilly hell. But suppose you were a resident of hillbilly hell and determined to stay there? Then you would be like Ree Dolly, the seventeen-year-old heroine of Debra Granik’s Winter’s Bone.

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