Valley of Bones is a 2017 American adventure/crime thriller film directed by Dan Glaser and starring Autumn Reeser, Rhys Coiro and Steven Molony.

[2] A disgraced paleontologist struggling to raise her son is tipped off to a groundbreaking dig site in the Badlands, embarks on a journey through the badlands of western North Dakota to search for a monumental T. rex fossil.

She has to team up with a recovering meth addict, with unpaid debts to a drug cartel and threatens to bury them both under the weight of their criminal pasts.

[1] [4] Most of the film was shot on Wanzek's Pitchfork Ranch property near Amidon, North Dakota.

[5][6] Valley of Bones was distributed by Smith Global Media/Sony Pictures and released across the United States in September 2017.