Thunderheart [Region 2] |  | Director: Michael Apted
Actors: Val Kilmer, Sam Shepard, Graham Greene, Fred Ward, Fred Dalton Thompson
Category: DVD
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Rating:  81 reviews
Sales Rank: 186095
Format: Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), German (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Italian (Subtitled), Hindi (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Turkish (Subtitled), Danish (Subtitled), Icelandic (Subtitled), Swedish (Subtitled), Hungarian (Subtitled), Polish (Subtitled), Dutch (Subtitled), Arabic (Subtitled), Finnish (Subtitled), Czech (Subtitled), Greek (Subtitled), German (Dubbed), Italian (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 2
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Running Time: 119 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5050582238365
ASIN: B00004U8OB
Theatrical Release Date: April 3, 1992
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Tough but moving, Thunderheart is an unusual story about an arrogant FBI agent (Val Kilmer) who participates in a federal investigation of a murder on an Oglala Sioux reservation. Kilmer's character is part Sioux himself, a detail that leaves him cold as he sets about pushing his way through the community to find facts on the case. In time, however, he begins to feel an ethnic tug and grows increasingly sympathetic to the locals and hostile toward his fellow G-men, much to the dismay of his agency mentor (Sam Shepard). The script is based on real events that occurred on the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1975 in South Dakota (involving an armed standoff between Indian activists and the FBI, an event that prompted Thunderheart director Michael Apted to make a companion documentary, Incident at Oglala). The conclusion of Thunderheart feels like politically charged whimsy, but the real strength of the film is Kilmer's outstanding performance as a man in transformation. Apted's clear-eyed depiction of the Sioux's spiritual and cultural continuity with the past has none of the cloying romanticism of other films about Indians. Produced by Robert De Niro. --Tom Keogh
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Thunderheart - Val Kilmer May 28, 2009
Wanda Hicks
I love this movie. I could watch it over and over. Val Kilmer really makes this movie.
Healing story for challenging times March 18, 2009
BlueFire (Mountains of No. Carolina)
Thunder Heart is one of my favorite movies. It's a medicine story which takes place in South Dakota, on the Lakota Reservation at Pine Ridge and the Badlands. The story is this: Spirit and Heart are the source of True Power which is not suppressed by the fearful actions of those who are lost and have forgotten their hearts. Very timely lesson these days.
"THEIR LAND IS NOT FOR SALE" March 18, 2009
Jeremy (Springfield, Illinois)
Thunderheart is an immensely impassioned film inspired by true events that occurred on the Pine Ridge indian reservation, an Oglala Sioux reservation, in the Badlands of South Dakota in 1975. It focuses on the murder of a tribal council member and features an impressive cast of veteran actors including native american Graham Greene. Greene portrays Walter Crow Horse, a tribal sheriff from the reservation where the murder occurred. The FBI is called in to conduct an investigation that they thought would be a quick "three day in and out" affair. Sam Shepard depicts FBI agent Frank Catelle, who thinks the Sioux are a "conquered people." Finally, there's Val Kilmer, who portrays FBI agent Ray Levoi, whose father was half Sioux. Incidentally, because of his father's heritage, Levoi is specifically chosen to aid Catelle in the investigation. Despite the fact that the FBI had jurisdiction over the case, Crow Horse takes it upon himself to launch his own investigation and makes some clever discoveries. FBI jealousy ensues, and an intense rivalry unfolds between them and Crow Horse to see who can crack the crime quicker. Poignantly produced by Robert De Niro, Thunderheart is a very compelling film, successfully linking native american history to modern day challenges the Sioux Nation faces in maintaining their cultural identity. At one point, while navigating his way through the reservation, Catelle says, "Driving through here is like driving through a third world country smack dab in the middle of America." Truly, a most rewarding film seen through the eyes of people who were "conquered," in the hope it will awaken something in those of us who did the conquering.
 Painful March 8, 2009
Kupaianaha (Maui)
This is an excellent movie depicting the actual living situations on Sioux Reservations and the very real corruption that is going on around them. Good to see people making stories that are true about Indians. I think it was pretty bold to come out with the truth as it is in this movie.
Land of the Free, Not Really February 6, 2009
Gary E. Gross (Chicago, Illinois USA)
This movie follows some of the Native American side of recent history.
An excellent companion movie is the documentary, "Incident at Oglala"
which was presented by Robert Redford.
Both movies are an indictment of the Power Elite's usual two-step dance of, "The search for the guilty and then the punishment of the innocent".
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