In this 5-Star (Peter Bradshaw – The Guardian) thriller – a late addition to the Autumn Season - a lone traveller through snowbound northern Minnesota interrupts the kidnapping of a teenage girl.
Hit by a blizzard, a grief-stricken loner (Emma Thompson) gets lost among backroads near a Minnesotan lake and stops for help at a remote cabin in the woods. Here she discovers a young woman (Laurel Marsden) kidnapped by a desperate couple (Judy Greer and Marc Menchaca). Isolated and without phone service, this unlikely hero realizes she is the woman's only hope of survival. The film has old-school barnstorming brashness, some edge-of-the-seat tension, a streak of sentimentality, a dash of broad humour and a flourish of the macabre. Emma Thompson is once again as reliable an actress as you could have wished, thoroughly believable as the lovable Barb, a graceful grieving widow capable of heroic actions.
USA 2025 Brian Kirk 97m
