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  • 2002
  • R
  • First Look International
  • 1 h 24 m
  • 2002
  • R
  • First Look International
  • 1 h 24 m

Summary In the shadow of Mt. Rushmore, one of America's favorite tourist attractions lies one of her poorest counties, The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. For Police officer Rudy Yellow Lodge, the painful legacy of Indian existence is brought home every night as he locks up drunk and disorderly Indians, which frequently includes his own alcoholic...

Directed By: Chris Eyre

Written By: Adrian C. Louis, Jennifer D. Lyne

  • 2002
  • R
  • First Look International
  • 1 h 24 m
  • 2002
  • R
  • First Look International
  • 1 h 24 m

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Summary In the shadow of Mt. Rushmore, one of America's favorite tourist attractions lies one of her poorest counties, The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. For Police officer Rudy Yellow Lodge, the painful legacy of Indian existence is brought home every night as he locks up drunk and disorderly Indians, which frequently includes his own alcoholic...

Directed By: Chris Eyre

Written By: Adrian C. Louis, Jennifer D. Lyne

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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58% Positive
11 Reviews
32% Mixed
6 Reviews
11% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 19 Critic Reviews
57
58% Positive
11 Reviews
32% Mixed
6 Reviews
11% Negative
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83
This is a film about anger, shame and helplessness, and it offers no answers, merely hard questions and angry challenges.
By Sean Axmaker FULL REVIEW
75
Graham Greene ("Dances With Wolves") in one of the year's best performances, he's a fully dimensional character: pathetic and shrewd, tragic and bitterly funny.
By Edward Guthmann FULL REVIEW
70
Serious stuff indeed, but the film is also rich with humor -- most of it courtesy of the always-excellent Greene -- and ends with an act of vandalism as shocking as it is exhilarating.
By Ken Fox FULL REVIEW
70
This first generation of Native American movie directors has already managed to make great strides: While prodding the collective conscience of the U.S. mainstream with their disturbing views of the reservation, they have also opened the door to a vibrant spirit world unknown to all but a few.
By Bill Gallo FULL REVIEW
50
The sharpness of Eyre's opening, however, ebbs away when he takes up the story of Rudy (Eric Schweig) and Mogie (Graham Greene), two brothers with neatly opposed responses to the reservation grind.
By Paul Malcolm FULL REVIEW
50
Might have been better off as a documentary, with less of Mr. Eyre's uninspired dramatics and more of his sense of observation and outrage.
By Dave Kehr FULL REVIEW
20
Good intentions or not, ineptitude and cloying sentimentality don't do anybody any favors.
By Mark Holcomb FULL REVIEW

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Production Company First Look International, Starz! Encore Entertainment, Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, Grandview Pictures
Release Date Sep 27, 2002
Duration 1 h 24 m
Rating R
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Tagline The Other American Heroes.
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Awards

American Indian Film Festival
• 5 Nominations
Prism Awards
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Tokyo International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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