Even Liza, a self-serving seducer with a near-paranormal eye-widening ability, is teetering on the verge of goodness - although it's hard to believe that sullen, slow-witted Jay is the guy to save her. In addition to Hanna, the good cop, there's June (Sissy Spacek), Jay's good mom. If there's hope for Deadfall's frozen universe, it doesn't sport an XY chromosome. Jay (Charlie Hunnam) comes across Liza in the cold and takes her in. (Yes, really.) While on his trek, the ruthless-but-fair Addison rescues a woman and her two children, who have been turned out into the snow by another abominable patriarch. Addison and Liza are - nudge, nudge - very close, and that intimacy is rooted in the way he protected her from their reportedly loathsome father meanwhile Jay has been feuding with his pop and former boxing coach, Chet (Kris Kristofferson), since the kid won only a silver medal at the Beijing Olympics. The heroes, villains and antiheroes of Zach Dean's script all share something besides guns and snowmobiles: daddy issues. Big brother has more transitory encounters, but rarely goes long without meeting - and often killing - some Michigander. Addison goes off-road, while Liza hitches a ride with Jay (Charlie Hunnam), an ex-boxer who has just gotten out of prison and is already in trouble again. In the opening sequence, Addison and Liza flee a casino robbery, only to be left vehicle-less by a devastating crash. Addison (Bana) and younger sister Liza (Olivia Wilde) are crypto-Faulknerian types from backwoods Alabama, but their down-home skills are limited primarily to shootin' and stabbin'.

If Deadfall is another survival parable, its wintry location doesn't provide for much man-against-nature struggle. (Never mind that Ontario isn't a particularly congenial place to be a fugitive from U.S. In a sense, this movie's setup is similar: A pair of reprobate siblings head into a snowy forest, splitting up in hopes of crossing the Canadian border. The latter won the 2008 foreign-film Oscar for The Counterfeiters, a partly true story of a man who uses his criminal skills to survive Auschwitz and eventually leave Poland. But nobody comes off worse than the out-of-towners: Australian star Eric Bana and Austrian director Stefan Ruzowitzky. Everyone gets roughed up pretty bad in Deadfall, a pop-Freudian thriller set in Michigan's north woods.

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