Ray Levoi
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- It was easy to take a film like "Thunderheart" for granted in its era when a smart, exciting, well-cast and politically charged thriller seemed to open every other week. Today, it feels practically revelatory — a Michael Apted gem that holds up very well.
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Advertisement. In “Thunderheart” we get a real visual sense of the reservation, of the beauty of the rolling prairie and the way it is interrupted by deep gorges, but also of the omnipresent rusting automobiles and the subsistence level of some of the housing.
When a series of murders stuns a small Native American reservation, the FBI sends in agent Ray Levoi (Val Kilmer) to investigate. While Ray is relatively inexperienced, he is one quarter Sioux, and...
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- Michael Apted
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- Val Kilmer
Feb 23, 2021 · Michael Apted’s Thunderheart (1992) is a glossy yet captivating Hollywood production to deal with the plight of Native Americans, relocated to reservations in the American wilderness and burdened forever with the disadvantage of social isolation, poverty, homelessness, and alcoholism.
Thunderheart is a 1992 American Neo-Western mystery film directed by Michael Apted from a screenplay by John Fusco. The film is a loosely based fictional portrayal of events relating to the Wounded Knee incident in 1973, [2] when followers of the American Indian Movement seized the South Dakota town of Wounded Knee in protest against federal ...
Apr 3, 1992 · Thunderheart: Directed by Michael Apted. With Val Kilmer, Sam Shepard, Graham Greene, Fred Ward. A young mixed-blood FBI agent is assigned to work with a cynical veteran investigator on a murder on a poverty-stricken Sioux reservation.
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- Crime, Mystery, Thriller
- Michael Apted
- 1992-04-03
This is a very good movie with a great, but disturbing message, perhaps even more because it was based on real events. It tells the story of an Indian reservation in South Dakota in the seventies. There seems to be some kind of war going on between traditionalist and progressive Indians.
Thunderheart adds up to an absorbing and provocative thriller. Even the gaps in story-telling somehow work in its favor as Apted takes jumps in time and place that underscore the mental state of...
