Thunderheart

Genre: Thriller

Worldwide gross$22.7M

An FBI man with Sioux background is sent to a reservation to help with a murder investigation, where he has to come to terms with his heritage. Slowly he rejects the intimidating tactics of his fellow FBI agents, who are not so interested in solving the crime as covering up an incriminating situation with the locals, and as he becomes more tuned to his heritage, the locals begin trusting him. Based on actual Reservation occurrences of the '70s.

🏆 2 nominations total

Genres

Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Director

Michael Apted

Cast

Val Kilmer, Sam Shepard, Graham Greene

Released

3 April 1992

Runtime

1h 59m

Certificate

R

IMDb rating

6.8 / 10

Votes

19,042

Metascore

58

Rotten Tomatoes

91%

Box office

$22,660,758

Edition

Base