Ree (Jennifer Lawrence) is a 17-yo with an incapacitated mother, two young siblings, and a missing, meth-cooking/selling dad. She’s about to lose their hardscrabble farm and house in Appalachia hill-country because he is due in court and will forfeit the house/farm/land pledged as bond. This is an isolated, musical, patriarchal, clannish and violent place where kinship matters and blood feuds persist. Betrayal is death. Scots-Irish peasantry in the 21st century. Wonderfully acted by a cast with many amateur locals and a few pros. John Hawkes as Ree’s uncle, Teardrop, is standout, but then all are fine. Shot on location in real homes that are as small as they appear. There is no rustic romanticism in this film, although it retains a Gothic quality. Wonderfully photographed. I do wish we’d seen it in the theater. See this movie