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Trudell

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Movie Info

Genre(s): Documentary

Written by: Russell Friedenberg

Directed by: Heather Rae

Release Date:
Theatrical: February 24, 2006
DVD: March 20, 2007

Running Time: 75 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: Not Rated

Starring John Trudell, Robert Redford, Kris Kristofferson, Sam Shepard, Amy Ray, Val Kilmer, Jackson Browne, Darelle 'Dino' Butler, Wilma Mankiller, and Bonnie Raitt

In this documentary filmmaker Heather Rae the engaging life story of Native American poet-prophet-activist John Trudell and his heartfelt message of active, personal responsibility to the earth, all of its inhabitants and our descendents. (Appaloosa Pictures)

What The Critics Said

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75

San Francisco Chronicle Walter Addiego

It's an intriguing portrait, but it makes no pretense at objectivity, erring on the side of hero worship.

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75

Boston Globe Erin Meister

A thought-provoking and graceful portrait of a tenacious peace warrior whose frankness is his greatest weapon.

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70

Village Voice Mark Holcomb

Unfortunately, Rae's film is split down the middle, and the appeal of its latter half depends on your tolerance for earnest politico-poetry set to wailing rock guitar and Native American chants and extraneously endorsed by celebrity talking heads. The backstory portion of the film, though, is riveting.

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63

TV Guide Ken Fox

Rae's 80-minute film isn't able to answer every question or flesh out important details of these events, and she spends more time on Trudell's artistic endeavors than on his direct political action.

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60

The New York Times Jeannette Catsoulis

No one in the film has a bad word to say about Mr. Trudell, despite his 17,000-page F.B.I. dossier; and by the time Robert Redford assures us that meeting him is not dissimilar to meeting the Dalai Lama, you may feel that all this worship does not do justice to an unusually stormy and complicated life.

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60

Variety Joe Leydon

More hagiography than history, Heather Rae's long-in-production portrait of Native American activist and poet John Trudell has the uncritically admiring feel of authorized biography.

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58

The Onion (A.V. Club) Noel Murray

Anyone looking for history lessons from Rae's documentary will have to be patient and alert enough to pick through the poetry.

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50

The Hollywood Reporter Sheri Linden

Feels padded in some places, truncated in others. It also feels too respectful, especially when its subject is such a deep thinker and questioner of authority.

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50

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

Rae does offer a riveting introduction to the American Indian civil rights movement.

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50

Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

Unfortunately, absent a more objective context, Trudell's gnomic utterances do little to support those sentiments. By preaching so relentlessly to the choir, this film misses an opportunity to show what got them to sing in the first place.

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40

LA Weekly Tim Grierson

How could a movie about someone with one of the nation's longest FBI files be this dull?

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40

Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten

The man whom the FBI described as "extremely eloquent, therefore extremely dangerous" here seems about as threatening as Mother Teresa.

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40

Film Threat Bob Westal

While Trudell has a few interesting and emotional moments in its second half, from the start it is badly hobbled by its worshipful tone.

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25

New York Post V.A. Musetto

Politics aside, Trudell plays like an infomercial for its subject rather than a serious examination of the man and his beliefs.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 10.0 (out of 10) based on 2 User Votes

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