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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Emma Thompson
Barb
Judy Greer
Purple Lady
Marc Menchaca
Camo Jacket
Laurel Marsden
Leah
Gaia Wise
Young Barb
Cúán Hosty-Blaney
Young Karl
Dalton Leeb
Younger Hunter
Lloyd Hutchinson
Lawyer
Brían F. O'Byrne
Tall Hunter
Paul Hamilton
Old Karl
Director
Brian Kirk
Tagline
"Wrong place. Wrong crime."
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Revenue
$1,030,111
Production
Stampede Ventures, Augenschein Filmproduktion, ZDF, Leonine Studios, uMedia, Swift Productions, North.Five.Six
CinemaSerf
October 10, 2025
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 ...
The Fixate & Binge Podcast, w/ Joe Curdy
July 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 smart, linear story, and Thompson playing a more than meets the eye widow who stumbles upon a backwoods kidnapping -- **DEAD OF WINTER** delivers in e...
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