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Features: DVD, Pan and Scan (TV Format), Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, Dolby Surround Sound, English
Val kilmer stars as a part sioux fbi agent who reluctantly awakens to his heritage as he investigates a murder on an indian reservation.
Editor's Note
Agent Ray Levoi (Val Kilmer) buried his Native American heritage with the body of his drunken father. Raised by his white mother and stepfather, he becomes a gung-ho federal agent who never questions the authority of the U.S. government. Then Levoi finds himself in a real-life version of "cowboys and Indians" when the FBI moves onto a South Dakota reservation to apprehend a fugitive. Once in the community, the agent uncovers a plot to frame American Indian activists. With the help of an Indian sheriff and shaman (Graham Greene), he learns to accept a long-denied part of himself and to fight for his people. Created after the success of DANCES WITH WOLVES and LAST OF THE MOHICANS, director Michael Apted's film takes the buddy-cop genre and uses it to explore the sordid politics of reservation life in the United States. The film was released just weeks after Apted's documentary INCIDENT AT OGLALA, which examines the unjust imprisonment of Indian activist Leonard Peltier. Together the two films form a powerful plea for recognition of the mistreatment of Native Americans.
Plot Summary
In director Michael Apted's THUNDERHEART, a cocky young FBI agent--because of his part-Sioux ancestry--is assigned to a high-pressure, politically volatile murder investigation on an American Indian reservation.
| Features | Region 1 Encoding |
| Special Features: Interactive Menu, Scene Selections, Theatrical Trailer |
| Keep Case |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
|  | Studio: Columbia Tri-Star |
| Release Date: 6/3/2003 |
| Running Time: 119 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1992 | | Catalog ID: 70699 | | UPC: 00043396706996 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, French | | Video: Color |
| Cast & Crew
| Memorable Quotes| "Around here I'm the FBI----full--blooded Indian."----Yellow Hawk (Julius Drum) to Agent Ray Levoi (Val Kilmer) | | "Magoo needs to get up on the mountain and get himself focused."----Walter Crow Horse (Graham Greene) translating Grandpa Sam Reaches (Chief Ted Thin Elk) to Agent Levoi | | "You gonna tell me how much change he had in his pocket?"----Agent Levoi to Walter Crow Horse |
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| | Professional Reviews | Rolling Stone
"...Kilmer and Shepard give strong performances....[The] camera sweeps breathtakingly across the Badlands..." 04/16/1992 p.93New York Times
"...[Conveyed with] curiosity and intelligence....Apted is a skillful storyteller..." 04/03/1992 p.C12 Los Angeles Times
"...Enlivened by some appealing acting and vivid camerawork..." 04/03/1992 p.F1 Chicago Sun-Times
"...What's most absorbing about THUNDERHEART is its sense of place and time....We feel that we're really there, and that the people in the story really occupy land they stand on..." 04/03/1992 p.51 |
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