Thunderheart

Starring: Val Kilmer, Graham Greene, Sam Shepard, et al.

Product Description

A part-Indian FBI agent and his partner meet militants on a 1970s South Dakota reservation. Directed by Michael Apted.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 043396706996
• Release Date: April 2003
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Publisher: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
• Director: Michael Apted
• Starring: Val Kilmer, Graham Greene, Sam Shepard, Sheila Tousey, Chief Ted Thin Elk, Fred Ward, John Trudell, Fred Dalton Thompson, Julius Drum
• Runtime: 1 hour, 59 minutes
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: dvd_video
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Whodunnit with native intrigue.

Ray Levoi (Val Kilmer), a promising East Coast FBI agent, is assigned to a case. He assumes this is a stepping stone to promotion. Yet he is informed it is on an Indian reservation and that he is Indian, and that it is more diplomatic. The reality, as in most of these stories, is that there is a more nefarious purpose in mind. Will Levoi discover the real purpose of his assignment? Will Levoi ferret out Whodunnit? Will Levoi figure out what was done? How will he handle confronting remnants of his unknown past culture? A Major catalyst and almost the narrator of the story is Graham Greene, born in Six Nations Reserve, Ontario, Canada, and a graduate of The Centre for Indigenous Theatre's Native Theatre School. He gives a true native feeling to the film. Formula story written by John Fusco has a Tony Hillerman feel. It has the advantage of not being reforested. When Robert Redford gets hold of a movie, it loses its original purpose or feel and becomes some sort of political statement. This movie is just about someone finding himself, even if he did not know he was lost. If anything, it has that Joseph Campbell coming-of-age story.