Down To The Bone

Debra Granik's debut feature, developed at the Sundance Institute, is a quietly harrowing chronicle of addiction and fragile recovery anchored by Vera Farmiga's intense performance as a blue-collar housewife whose decision to kick her long-term cocaine addiction shatters her already precariously balanced life. Irene (Farmiga) lives in upstate New York, where the winters are gray and long. Her job as a supermarket checker is mind-numbing and her marriage is in the doldrums, though she loves her two small sons dearly. She isn't a stereotypically out-of-control user: Bills get paid, she goes to work, she doesn't have wild freak-outs or turn tricks on the side but she kn...