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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD DVD Layers: 1 DVD Sides: 2 EAN: 9780767812184 Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 0767812182 Label: Sony Pictures Languages: Manufacturer: Sony Pictures MPN: D70699D Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Sony Pictures Region Code: 1 Release Date: September 29, 1998 Running Time: 119 minutes Studio: Sony Pictures Theatrical Release Date: April 03, 1992 Editorial Review: Amazon.com: 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 Average Rating:
 Rating:  - ThunderheartIT IS A GREAT MOVIE. I REMEMBER THE INCIDENT THAT THE MOVIE WAS BASED ON AND THE STORY STICKS CLOSE TO THE ORIGINAL. THE ACTING IS VERY GOOD AND VERY BELIEVEABLE. IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT; DO SO! Rating: - On the rez, FBI means a whole lot different things than it does on the outsideFull Blood Indian, just for one. "Thunderheart" was released in 1992 and based on several incidents on reservations. FBI Agent Ray Levoi (Kilmer) was called in to the Oglala Sioux Reservation on special assignment because he's part Sioux Indian himself and the Bureau figured he'd fit in. No further from the truth, Ray quickly learns there's a big difference between a city Indian and a rez one -- and the rez is definitely a whole different world. The issue is civil war ... Read More Rating: - ThunderheartGood story Showed cultral issues as they might be Some acting very poor Alot of the Indian movies seemed to be same actors confusing Rating: - EnlighteningVery enlightening regarding the conditions of the indians on the reservations and what is hidden about what the people and government are still doing to take their lands away from them and kill and hurt them and their children. Anything goes for the almighty dollar! Rating: - a hard to find movie.. at a great priceThis was a birthday gift for a very picky man.. My father... He Loved it.. it was a lil scary waiting for it to get here.. arrived late.. but still in time for his birthday |
