Jennifer Lawrence is a very good actress, and she's starting to have a certain market cornered: the Appalachian girl who is stronger than anyone suspects, and who comes into her own thanks to the imposition of an unexpected, exaggerated personal adversity. A grounded version of that character is at the center of
Winter's Bone, and the more fantastic version is the heroine of
The Hunger Games.
Now Lionsgate, the studio which ...