“Northern Borders” is the story of a 10-year-old boy sent by his father to live on his grandparents’ Vermont farm, where he uncovers long-festering family secrets. It’s Craven’s sixth feature film and ...

The story may reek of caricatured Ye Olde Vermont, with its curmudgeons and other salt-of-the-earth “real characters,” and perhaps that is part of the reason why Jay Craven’s new film, “Northern ...