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Thunderheart | 1992 | R | - 0.4.5
Val Kilmer stars as an FBI man with some Sioux blood, who's sent, with partner Sam Shepard, to a reservation embroiled in a mini-civil war between pro-government natives and militant traditionalists, in order to investigate a murder.
SEX/NUDITY 0 - None.
VIOLENCE/GORE 4 - What might otherwise be a very graphic shooting is shown in silhouette, and still comes off looking rather nasty. Bullets are sprayed in a few instances, with no fatalities. A small boy is shot in the arm. Shepard's character is bitten in the hand by a badger (yes, a badger). Dead bodies are found unburied and abandoned in at least two instances.
LANGUAGE 5 - The F-word is used half a dozen times.
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Mysticism rooted in the Sioux culture is examined. The Indian reservations as a political concept.
MESSAGE - Thou shalt not deny your ethnic heritage.
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We've gone through several editorial changes since we started covering films in 1992 and older reviews are not as complete & accurate as recent ones; we plan to revisit and correct older reviews as resources and time permits.
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