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Thunderheart [DVD] [1992]

DVD ~ Val Kilmer
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  • Actors: Val Kilmer, Sam Shepard, Graham Greene, Fred Ward, Fred Dalton Thompson
  • Directors: Michael Apted
  • Writers: John Fusco
  • Producers: Jane Rosenthal, John Fusco, Michael Nozik, Robert De Niro
  • Format: Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen
  • Language English, French
  • Subtitles: English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Hindi, Portuguese, Turkish, Danish, Icelandic, Swedish, Hungarian, Polish, Dutch, Arabic, Finnish, Czech, Greek
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Uca
  • DVD Release Date: 8 Mar 2004
  • Run Time: 114 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004U8OB
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 15,897 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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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 stand-off 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, Amazon.com --This text refers to the VHS edition of this video


Special Features

1.85 Wide Screen
DVD 9
French\German\Italian\Spanish
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital 5.1 English French German Italian Spanish
Dolby Digital Surround
Interactive Menus
Filmographies
Original Theatrical Trailer
Arabic\Czech\Danish\Dutch\English\Finnish\French\German\Greek\Hebrew\Hindi\Hungarian\Icelandic\Italian\Norwegian\Polish\Portuguese\Spanish\Swedish\Turkish
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent film with some very good performances., 12 Nov 2000
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I saw this film quite a few years ago now, and remember that it was a rough and violent but immensely entertaining film. I purchased the DVD (as it is that type of movie that you will watch again) from Amazon and re-lived the events at the reservation. I hated Sam Shepards character, which means that he played it well as the old-school agent, with the comparative new-comer (Kilmer) carrying out his orders with diligence and suspicion. For me though, the performance of the film was carried out by Graham Green II. His charisma and humour were evident throughout and greatly enhanced what could have been purely an investigative-drama. It was well shot, showed the squalor of the reservations, gave account of the irregular FBI interest in a murder case and the spiritual dream-world of the Sioux Nation. I hope that this review gives you enough incentive to view the film, you will not be disappointed. Other films I have enjoyed with a Native American/First Nation angle are Legends of the Fall, Last of the Mohicans, Dances with Wolves (Graham Greene again) and others - check out the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) for more information.
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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Whodunnit with native intrigue, 18 Feb 2006
By bernie "xyzzy" (Arlington, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Thunderheart [DVD] [1992] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)
Ray Levoi (Val Kilmer), a promising East Cost FBI agent is assigned to a case. He assumes this is in the latter to promotion. Yet he is informed it is in an Indian reservation and that he is Indian and it is more diplomatic. The reality as in most of these stories is that there is a more nefarious purpose in mind.

Will Levoi discover the real purpose of his assignment?
Will Levoi ferret out Whodunnit?
Will Levoi finger out what was done?
How will he handle confronting remnants of his unknown past culture?

A Major catalyst and almost the narrator of the story is Graham Greene. Born in Six Nations Reserve, Ontario, Canada and Graduate of The Centre for Indigenous Theatre's Native Theatre School. He gives a true native feeling to the film.

Formula story written by John Fusco has a Tony Hillerman feel. It has the advantage of not being Reforested. When Robert Redford gets a hold of a movie it looses its original purpose or feel and become some sort of political statement. This movie is just about someone finding himself, even if he did not know he was lost. If any thing it has a Joseph Campbell coming of age story.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Racial unrest in The Badlands, 19 Oct 2009
By Ms. B. A. Fisher (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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I saw this film a while ago on TV, and really enjoyed it. Val Kilmer is excellent as the FBI Indian Agent who is sent to The Badlands of Dakota when racial unrest and murder has broken out on the local reservation. Uncomfortable with his Indian background, he sees that Indians have an appalling existance on 'The Res', and comes to understand their plight. An old and wise Medicine Man recognises Kilmer as a reincarnation of 'Thunderheart', a Brave who was killed in a massacxre by the US army a century ago. Kilmer has visions of Ghost Dancers, and experiences running with the Braves at the massacre.Graham Greene is well cast as the local Indian Deputy, who is supposed to keep peace on 'The Res', and Sam Shephard is excellent as Kilmers' boss.
What is behind the racial tension and the murders, I will leave to you to find out for yourselves, but you will find this movie highly entertaining, and rather humbling in places, as the movie asks you to understand the past with the present.
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