March 13, 2009
anghsty native americans dealing with death. I only give it the extra star for the independant movie feel.
Cody Lightning, Tamara Podemski, Jeri Arredondo
Cufe Smallhill finds his father dead. Fulfilling a dying wish, he disposes of the body in the family pond and sets off to begin a new life in the big city of Tulsa.
DVD Release Date: November 6, 2007
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November 18, 2007I don't think this movie is for eeryone. However, the dead on depiction of the modern native american family is phenominal. Although I loved Smoke Signals, this trancended that film. It could have just been an honest movie about indian culture but it went on to tell a story with ...( read more)
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November 3, 2007Four Sheets to the Wind Summary:
Sterlin Harjo's gentle coming-of-age drama Four Sheets to the Wind opens in the hamlet of Holdenville, Oklahoma, where a young Native American man, Cufe Smallhill (Cody Lightning of Smoke Signals), discovers his father's dead body. His dad's last wish, it seems, was to be buried in the local pond. Cufe fulfills this request, packs his bags, and heads off to the metropolis of Tulsa, where he sets about building a new life for himself. Above and beyond its dramatic, narrative and aesthetic strengths, Harjo's film retains enormous sociocultural interest as one of the few films by, about, and starring American Indians - a rare feature to concern itself with contemporary Indian lifestyles in lieu of dramatizing Native American histories. Tamara Podemski co-stars as Cufe's sister Miri.
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