Director: Audrey Cummings
Isolation turns deadly for a mother and daughter in Place of Bones, a hard-edged 1876-set western thriller from Canada and the United States.
What is Place of Bones about?
Set on an isolated ranch in 1876, Place of Bones centers on a mother and daughter left to fend for themselves when a gang of outlaws sets its sights on their land. With no neighbors close enough to call on and no lawman riding in to save the day, the two women have to rely on grit, terrain, and each other as the threat closes in over the course of a single, tense stretch of days. The film keeps its frame tight and its stakes personal, treating the frontier setting less as spectacle and more as a pressure cooker that strips away any illusion of safety.
Cast & crew
Heather Graham and Brielle Robillard lead the film as the mother-daughter pair at its center, with Tom Hopper, Corin Nemec, Donald Cerrone, Gattlin Griffith, and Zachary Keller filling out the ranch hands and outlaws circling them; Ray Abruzzo also appears. Audrey Cummings directs.
Context & significance
A Canada–United States co-production released in 2024, Place of Bones runs a lean 93 minutes and sits in the survivalist strain of western storytelling, where the genre's usual gunfights and standoffs are filtered through the specific fear of two women defending a home with almost no outside help. That framing gives the film a more claustrophobic feel than a typical shootout-driven western.
Where & how to watch
Place of Bones is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing, so Farsi-speaking audiences can watch the film fully in Farsi rather than relying on subtitles. The film's page can be read for free without logging in, and watching it only requires a K-Time account, on a platform built with Farsi-language streaming in mind for the Iranian diaspora.