This film works on every level. The story is dealt with brilliantly. The boy and his mother return to a remote home where her grandfather lived in a big old house by a river. In a new house next door lives Holly. She and her father had a baby that they threw in the water. Tom the troubled boy finds the skeleton of the baby and saves it away in a box under his bed. The girl cries and tells him about her awful father and asks him to kill her dad who has abused her for years. The dad tries to kill the boy in the water. The mother saves him. The dad is dead. The daughter goes off with her boyfriend. The mother and son leave that place.
Review of The Winter Lake
