Story Line
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.
“Wrong place. Wrong crime.”
Top Cast
Emma Thompson
Barb
Judy Greer
Purple Lady
Marc Menchaca
Camo Jacket
Laurel Marsden
Leah
Gaia Wise
Young Barb
Cúán Hosty-Blaney
Young Karl
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Rating
6.5/ 10
Release Date
2025-09-23
Runtime
1h 38m
Genres
ThrillerAction
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User Reviews (3)
CinemaSerf
7/10
•10/10/2025With 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...
The Fixate & Binge Podcast, w/ Joe Curdy
6/10
•7/29/2026**DEAD OF WINTER** isn't groundbreaking in its premise or bursting with originality-- but for fans of Emma Thompson's body of acting work, her performance alone carries the film throughout in this cat and mouse suspense, survival thriller.
With a ...
tender_buttkiss
3/10
•8/17/2026At one point Judy Grears character reveals that the plan is to perform this illegal life saving surgery on the ice only becauae then once she and her husband are done they can easily dump the body into the frozen lake. Or, ya know, wait until it's wa...