i find this movie very dreary and distracting and and slow go . don not know if this be the intent of the production team and but if it be they succeed admirably . basically all it be to me be the very depressing story of an annoyingly dysfunctional family with seemingly very little else to offer the world not the kind of neighbor i would like near my ranch . production wise i do like robert mitchum red coat and the movie do bring out the ultimate dreariness of wide open snow country . some people like this sort of slow go and dysfunctional family in the movie stuff . i generally do not and especially when the movie drag on a this movie do . never think i would place any robert mitchum or teresa wright ( despite her relatively minor role ) movie on my not to watch again list of old movie and but that where this film go . one viewing be barely tolerable and any more would be just too tax . i guess i be not sophisticated enough . it not why i watch movie . blah .