A widowed fisherwoman, travelling alone through snowbound northern Minnesota, interrupts the kidnapping of a teenage girl. Hours from the nearest town and with no phone service, she realizes that she is the young girl's only hope.
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A private user reviewed Dead of Winter (2025)
Dead of Winter
With the ice on a remote Minnesota lake thick enough to need a saw to cut through it, “Barb” (Dame Emma Thompson) heads, replete with her handy little heated hut, to do some fishing. Her solitude is disturbed by a young woman who is forcibly returned to a nearby house, and upon some sleuthing she discovers that not only has she been kidnapped, but that her captor (Marc Manchaca) and his even more desperate wife (Judy Greer) have a dastardly plan for her that it’s going to fall to this ill-equipped woman to thwart. There are no phones and they are both armed, dangerous and soon aware of her presence. Can she stay one step ahead of them, rescue the girl, get to the bottom of their malevolent intent and fulfil her own purpose for being here at this inhospitable time of year? The cinematography of this bleak and chilly wilderness is gorgeous to look at and there is something quite original from a plot that maybe doesn’t go into too much detail, but that provides an interesting vehicle for a star who quite literally has a drip on the end of her nose as the snow gradually takes on a more menacing hue. There isn’t a great deal of dialogue to worry about, just some chilly photography and a sinister plot that I felt definitely at the better end of the genre from 2025.
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