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Kill the Indian. Save the Man.
Bradley Cooper (The Hangover, The A-Team) stars in this mystery about a geologist tracking down the epicenter of an earthquake that leads him to an Indian reservation. Actress Georgina Lightning (TV s The West Wing and Walker, Texas Ranger ) makes her co-writing and directing debut with this passion project while also starring alongside Cooper as Rain, a woman beset by troubling visions from the past. Both their journeys lead to an abandoned schoolhouse and shocking secrets secrets that corrupt politicians and businessmen want to pave over. But the spirits won t be silenced. Like the Oscar-nominated Doubt and acclaimed Canadian drama The Boys Of St. Vincent, this powerful film turns a painful chapter of US history into a compelling, piercing drama. The award-winning cast also includes Adam Beach (Flags Of Our Fathers), Chris Mulkey (TV s 24 ) and the great Wes Studi (Avatar, Dances With Wolves).
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Older Than America Reviews
| 44 of 45 people found the following review helpful  Powerful, Gentle and Universal, By Amazon Verified Purchase This review is from: Older Than America (DVD) This film is incredibly moving, powerful, and gentle all at once. The characters humanity is what truly stands-out. Even the supporting and ancillary characters are strong - and most important - multidimensional. There are sympathetic, ordinary whites trying to make a living and interacting as equals to their native friends. There is a conflicted native fooled by a duplicitous priest.The story is highly suspenseful, and will make you angry. The abuses it portrays really happened (and not just to native people either). It also has a message patience and gentleness, and it's ultimate portrayal of healing is a blessing. Though the stories are completely different, it has a similar feel to "Grand Torino" in its development of multi-dimensional characters coming to terms and learning universal truths. The friendships, family struggles, and disdainful gov. bureaucracies are things to which we can all relate. Healing doesn't come from revenge and hate -- it... Read more 32 of 32 people found the following review helpful Review of: Older Than America, By Amazon Verified Purchase This review is from: Older Than America (DVD) Georgina Lightening has directed and starred in a powerful film that address the ongoing fallout from the old US policy toward the indigenous people of "Save the man - Kill the Indian." There are strong performances from the veteran cast of mostly native actors including Adam Beach, Wes Studi, and Tantoo Cardinal.As history has disclosed, many of the children forcibly removed from their homes and sent to Indian Boarding Schools were victims of physical, sexual and emotional abuse. The policy of stripping the children of their own culture and placing them in regimented industrial programs actually continued into the mid-1970's. Many of these children were not allowed to visit their own families for years. An untold number of these children were "disappeared" as well. Indian country continues to struggle with the scars of these policies and often have found ways to rise above the effects of those policies. Set in northern Minnesota, the film also touches on... Read more 31 of 35 people found the following review helpful A must-see...a must-have, This review is from: Older Than America (DVD) I saw this film at a premiere at the university I teach at and ever since have been waiting anxiously for this film to be released. It's very exciting to see it finally here! A must-see film about the legacies of Indian boarding schools - beautifully done. As a Native American studies educator, you can be sure my students will be hearing of it. |
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