Opening today at Regal Downtown West is probably the best reviewed movie of the year so far, and it just happens to co-star Knoxville native Dale Dickey. Winter's Bone has thus far earned a 90 metascore at metacritic.com, and an awesome 94 percent at rottentomatoes.com.
In April Snellings' review in this week's MP, she says "Winter's Bone works on a multitude of levels: as a menacing suspense yarn, as a crime family saga occasionally reminiscent of The Godfather, even as a quest of truly mythic proportions. A simple story of a teenage girl's search for her father becomes a deeply resonant tale of corruption, betrayal, redemption, and family ties that bind in deadly ways."
Could this be Dickey's breakout role? (Even more so than "Patty the Daytime Hooker" from My Name is Earl?) She's made a career of playing rather rough Southern women, but often with great nuance, which has made her the go-to actress for such roles among casting agents.
"If that's what they see me as, there's where I want to go," she told Jack Neely last September. Dickey was in town for her performance in A Streetcar Named Desire at the Clarence Brown Theatre, and Jack Neely wrote what's probably the most in-depth profile of Dale Dickey yet.
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