I had the extremely good fortune to be able to attend a screening of this a few weeks back. It's awesome. Realistically miserable, terrifically acted and really a great film. Go see it.
I'm so glad to see somebody else call out Wendy and Lucy for the unholy suckfest of misery and despair it is. When I told some people I didn't particularly like it, they acted like I'd given Mary the finger at a Knights of Columbus dinner.
Some of my ancestors came over the Oregon Trail in 1847 and were talked into entering the "Applegate Trail," which I believe was not much better than "Meek's Cutoff." Luckily for all Blogtown readers they made it through to Eugene Skinner's place and their precious DNA reached my zygote instead of ending up in coyote shit fertilizing a sagebrush thicket next to Goose Lake.
I'm going to pay 10$ to see this at Fox Tower. GO SEE IT.