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Blizzard is a 2025 American neo-Western thriller film written and directed by Gore Verbinski and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and Verbinski from a story by Joe Carnahan. A co-production between Legendary Pictures and The Stone Quarry, it is the first installment in the Blizzard film series. The film stars Sasha Calle, with Dafne Keen, Michael Shannon, Laurence Fishburne, Norman Reedus, Nicholas Hoult, Maribel Verdú, and Ian McShane in supporting roles. It follows a survivalist (Calle), who suffers from survivor's guilt, as she willingly agrees to take in a young Spanish girl (Keen) twice her own youth to protect her from her cruel and abusive father (Shannon) at the behest of the child's terminally ill mother (Verdú). Blizzard opened in theaters on December 8th, 2025; the film received generally positive reviews, with Calle's performance receiving the highest praise, and many complimented the visual style, direction, themes, action sequences, and the score, though the film's graphic violence and implications of rape drew controversy. It was widely considered a comeback in Verbinski's career, which had declined in 2019. It was also a box-office success, grossing $571 million worldwide against a $1.4 million budget. A sequel is currently in development with Calle and Keen set to return.
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  • misterwolf Plot: A young Spanish girl named Sara Lopéz is living with her refugee mother Marianna, who sheltered the child and herself in Alaska from her crazed husband for six years. However, Marianna is dying from pneumonia, and she renders herself unable to protect Sara due to this condition.

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  • misterwolf Desperate to let Sara live, she contacts her long-time acquaintance Lavender González. Arriving a day late at their house, Lavender finds Marianna dying on her bed; she begs Lavender to take Sara and resume the latter's responsibility to protect the child. Lavender willingly agrees before Marianna succumbs to her illness. Sara however is resentful towards Lavender due to her role in Marianna's plan to burn their previous house before Alaska.

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  • misterwolf Over time, Lavender gains Sara's trust, and when the latter discovers Lavender's excellence in the Spanish language, she makes amends with her. Lavender later opens up to Sara about her traumatic past; five years ago, she and her husband Jack Warrens were ambushed by poachers, and when Lavender tried to kill the last one with her revolver once they both fought back, she instead shot Jack in his face on accident. She retaliated by shooting the man who caused the accident.

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  • misterwolf However, her shot did not kill the man, and she ultimately spared him out of realization that he did not intend for Jack to die. Lavender breaks down into tears as she finishes, and Sara comforts her, having learned what she has gone through. Sara reveals that she cremated Marianna after Lavender arrived, and that she intends to take her ashes to Kodiak Island. Lavender agrees to help her with this quest, and then sets the house ablaze with Sara's consent after bagging several food and medical supplies should they need them.

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  • misterwolf Meanwhile, Sara's father Martin Alvarado discovers his daughter's whereabouts and recruits his old friends Craig Newton and Samuel Everett to track her down. Lavender takes Sara to meet the former's grandfather Adam Wilson, who arms them with numerous bear traps and gasoline, as well as firewood in order to survive the winters on their journey. Lavender reveals to Sara that she had held her as an infant when she was born, indicating that she and Marianna were as "close as sisters", rather than acquantances like Sara thought they were.

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  • misterwolf This causes Sara to unwittingly run away out of fear, and she ends up encountering Alvarado, who secretly tries to rape her as a means to ensure that he can exile her and himself from Alaska. However, before he can begin, Lavender intervenes and engages Alvarado, while also telling Sara to run. Alvarado eventually subdues and impales Lavender in her abdomen before leaving her to die and pursuing Sara again, while Newton and Everett begin to question his intentions. Fortunately, Sara is able to outsmart her own father by misleading him with her own tracks, allowing her to return to a severely wounded Lavender and drag her to a nearby cave where she stabs a bear to death with no injury and skinning it down. She crafts a makeshift blanket out of the bear's fur and tends to Lavender's stab wound before covering her and herself up with the blanket and lying down; as Sara falls asleep, Lavender leans her head slightly towards her.

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  • misterwolf The next morning, an already healing Lavender awakens and wraps a still-sleeping Sara in the blanket without waking her, before carrying her out of the cave and continuing their journey to Kodiak Island. Sara awakens in Lavender's arms, the latter having fallen asleep after setting up a campfire and had become exhausted and worn out after walking fifty miles away from the cave. Sara manages to free herself from the blanket without disturbing Lavender's sleep and decides to keep watch for anyone who may be following them.

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  • misterwolf When Lavender wakes up, she discovers that Sara has been kidnapped by Alvarado after realizing that he stomped on the campfire in an attempt to stop her from trying to follow them. However, she also discovers Sara's footprints, indicating that she got away and is now hiding. Newton and Everett have also defected to Lavender after they witnessed Alvarado's second attempt to take advantage of Sara. She follows Sara's footprints, and initially believes she was mauled, but upon discovering no blood near her backpack, she is relieved when she realizes that she is still alive. However, she is ambushed by a crazed and wounded Alvarado, who kills Everett and injures Newton, while Sara suddenly emerges and shoots her father in his shoulder when he tries to kill Lavender; when Alvarado retreats down a creek, Lavender follows him. When she demands the truth about why he went after his own child, he lies, saying that he loved her. She replies "That's not love... And I'm gonna kill you, you monster of a human!". They both engage in a brutal fight, with Lavender being sliced on her left leg and Alvarado losing his right hand; Lavender eventually overpowers and stabs Alvarado, before ripping out his throat and forcing it down his neck, killing him. She then subsequently reunites with and embraces Sara, who accepts her as a mother figure. Lavender also assures Sara that she loves her, before they both bid farewell to Newton and arrive on Kodiak Island five days later. Sara dumps the ashes towards the lakes of the island, and she and Lavender watch as they fly in the wind before the end credits roll.

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  • misterwolf End Credits: Written for the Screen and Directed by Gore Verbinski | Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer | Produced by Gore Verbinski | Executive Producer: James Cameron | Executive Producer: Frank Darabont | Executive Producer Paul W. S. Anderson | Executive Producer: Joachim Rønning | Edited by Kirk M. Morri and James Wan | Cinematography by Michael Seresin | Choreography by Rob Marshall | Costumes Designed by Michael Wilkinson | Visual Effects by John Knoll | Music by Hans Zimmer and Lorne Balfe | Casting by Sarah Finn | Sasha Calle | BLIZZARD | Dafne Keen | Michael Shannon | Laurence Fishburne | Norman Reedus | Nicholas Hoult | with Maribel Verdú | and Ian McShane

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  • misterwolf Cast: Sasha Calle as Lavender González | Dafne Keen as Sara Lopéz | Maribel Verdú as Marianna Lopéz | Michael Shannon as Martin Alvarado | Laurence Fishburne as Craig Newton | Norman Reedus as Samuel Everett | Nicholas Hoult as Jack Warrens | Ian McShane as Adam Wilson

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