Thunderheart

Actor Robert De Niro started a production company to make films just like this one: stories which were unpopular with the establishment and which are unlikely to make a big splash at the box-office. Even so, this is a first-class production, and the filmmakers were the first to receive permission to ...more

Val Kilmer delivers some of his subtlest work as an FBI agent who must overcome his self-loathing to solve a murder. Kilmer is the film's reluctant hero, Ray Levoi, whose one-quarter-Native American heritage makes him the prime candidate to investigate a homicide on a South Dakota reservation, a case extrapolated from the true story of activist Leonard Peltier, whom many believe was wrongfully jailed for the murders of two FBI agents in the 1970s. Most of Thunderheart plays like Raymond ...more