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Thunderheart Director: Michael Apted Cast: Val Kilmer, Graham Greene, Sam Shepard, Sheila Tousey

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  • DVD Release Date: 09/29/1998
  • Original Release: 1992
  • Rating: Rated R
  • Sales Rank: 13,576

Viewer Rating: (5 ratings)

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Scene Index

Scene Selections
0. Scene Selections
1. Start [6:58]
2. Levoi & Coutelle [1:20]
3. Bear Creek [2:12]
4. Walter Crow Horse [6:16]
5. Two key extremists [1:23]
6. Sweat meeting [1:46]
7. Badger game [4:28]
8. Dumping ground [3:03]
9. Maggie Eagle Bear [4:14]
10. Writing their reports [3:06]
11. "Doing 59 in a 55." [1:31]
12. Heavy-duty medicine [7:25]
13. Grandma & Maggie [4:52]
14. Disarming the natives [3:11]
15. Shape shifter check [3:27]
16. Crow Horse Powwow [4:54]
17. Visions [3:53]
18. Not set-up [6:31]
19. On watch [4:55]
20. Evidence [4:58]
21. Vivid dream [1:48]
22. Power deal [4:06]
23. Thunderheart [3:54]
24. Richard Yellow Hawk [11:49]
25. Indian attack [4:06]
26. The stronghold [1:42]
27. The truth [4:13]
28. No word for goodbye [6:58]
Side #2-Full Screen
0. Scene Selection
1. Start [6:58]
2. Levoi & Coutelle [1:20]
3. Bear Creek [2:12]
4. Walter Crow Horse [6:16]
5. Two key extremists [1:23]
6. Sweat meeting [1:46]
7. Badger game [4:28]
8. Dumping ground [3:03]
9. Maggie Eagle Bear [4:14]
10. Writing their reports [3:06]
11. "Doing 59 in a 55." [1:31]
12. Heavy-duty medicine [7:25]
13. Grandma & Maggie [4:52]
14. Disarming the natives [3:11]
15. Shape Shifter check [3:27]
16. Crow Horse Powwow [4:54]
17. Visions [3:53]
18. Net set-up [6:31]
19. On watch [4:55]
20. Evidence [4:58]
21. Vivid dream [1:48]
22. Power deal [4:06]
23. Thunderheart [3:54]
24. Richard Yellow Hawk [11:49]
25. Indian attack [4:06]
26. The stronghold [1:42]
27. The truth [4:13]
28. No word for goodbye [6:58]

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Editorial Reviews

Actor Robert De Niro started a production company to make films just like this one: stories which were unpopular with the establishment and which are unlikely to make a big splash at the box-office. Even so, this is a first-class production, and the filmmakers were the first to receive permission to film on the Pine Ridge (Sioux) Reservation in South Dakota, likely due to director Michael Apted's having previously made an accurate and sensitive documentary about Indian political prisoner Leonard Peltier's case, Incident at Oglala. The film did exactly as well as expected at the box-office but has since assumed greater importance as one of the tiny number of "mainstream" movies which faithfully and respectfully illuminate Native American issues. In the story, loosely based on the earlier documentary, Ray Levoi (Val Kilmer) is an ambitious up-and-coming FBI agent in the 1970s with great career prospects. The one thing he will not tolerate is any reference to his half-Indian heritage. As far as he is concerned, his loyalties and culture identify him with the government and his white mother. He is extremely touchy about anything to do with his father, who was an alcoholic full-blooded Sioux. However, the FBI wants to take advantage of his half-Indian blood to mend fences in a politically sensitive murder investigation, and it sends him exactly where he doesn't want to go. Further, he is widely advertised as being Indian, though he knows virtually nothing about his heritage and has renounced it to the best of his ability. Once on the reservation, he becomes deeply involved in a truly messy state of affairs and is drawn into situations where he is forced to confront his background, native spirituality, and the duplicity of the government and its allies within the tribe. Despite his consistent prickliness about his heritage, his heart is in the right place, and the reservation's sheriff (Graham Greene) and a wise spiritual elder (Chief Ted Thin Elk) patiently lead their unwilling FBI pupil on a soul-wrenching wild goose chase which paradoxically takes him straight to the heart of the matter. Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

Customer Reviews

Very well doneby Kenina

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June 30, 2009: it doesn't matter what side of the fence your on this one makes you think and it draws attention to real life problems of modern natives instead of a period piece like they usually do. very enjoyable. a friend showed it to me and the next day i had to go out and get it. i was hooked. its now one of my top all time favorites.

I Also Recommend: Dances with Wolves, Open Range, The Lakota Way: Stories and Lessons for Living; Native American Wisdom on Ethics and Character, Native Healer: Initiation into an Ancient Art, Gift of Power: The Life and Teachings of a Lakota Medicine Man.

bad guys, good guysby Anonymous

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January 12, 2008: to: Indian Justice: guess what? the entire world is made up of bad guys and good guys, "get over it". I have read Tim Mathieson's book describing the incidents on the Lakota reservation in the 1960's, including the case of Leonard Peltier --who, last I heard, is still in prison. This film, while perhaps following the formula you describe, also includes the point of view that there are some Native Americans who are not so "spiritual" but as venal as the white people others of them fear and despise. It begins with one such as the main character and is the story of the arc of his journey, spiritual and mental, to seeing the reality of what is on the reservations. No one thinks all Native Americans are totally spiritual and at peace with themselves. This film only shows the element of that spirituality that was lost by so many, and kept by a few. If you don't buy the spiritual side of the culture, that's your privilege, but it doesn't mean it's not true. I give the film a high rating because, to my point of view, this is the real film about Native Americans, in the modern day, and how their difficulties today have their recent roots in the situations depicted in the film.


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