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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0687797872098
Label: First Look Pictures
Manufacturer: First Look Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: First Look Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 25, 2003
Running Time: 87 minutes
Sales Rank: 7658
Studio: First Look Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
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Amazon.com:
A dark and moving tale of bitter helplessness turned to vigilante rage, Skins is the second feature film directed by Chris Eyre (Smoke Signals). As with the previous movie, Skins concerns two very different and determined protagonists who have grown up together: a cop, Rudy Yellow Lodge (Eric Schweig), on the Lakota reservation's police force, and his older brother Mogie (Graham Greene), an unrepentant drunk. Frustrated by Mogie's self-destruction and outraged by rampant alcoholism throughout the rez (with the disease's concomitant social violence and general hell-raising at an all-time high), Rudy resorts to off-duty, anonymous jungle justice--beating suspects and torching a Nebraska border-town liquor store--with tragic consequences. Eyre's unflinching eye for reservation horrors and the exploitation of Indians is compelling; his compassion for characters grasping at hope is equally strong. Skins benefits mightily from Schweig and Greene's strong performances; in all, this is an underrated drama waiting for a real audience. --Tom Keogh
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Rating:  - Review of Skins
This is a modern Native American story, and we Americans MUST step up and take respondsability for the social problems of the modern Native Americans because over the last 300 years we have made today's problems
Rating:  - Not the Lakota way.
It's sad that this movie had to dwell on the negative stereotypes of our reservation life.It was also sad if not pitiful that the cop portrayed by Schweig had to commit a cowardly sneak attack on two drunken teenagers and break their knees with a baseball bat, then he sneaks down to White Clay, again like a cowardly thief in the night, and throws gas on a package store, and setting it on fire, almost kills his own brother.Then, as his final insult, again at night, he sneaks up on Mt. Rushmore ... Read More
Rating:  - Disappointing
Skins is director Chris Eyre's follow up to the 1997 Native American film Smoke Signals. Like the first film Skins is a comedy drama that has moments, and is a sound film, but could have done a bit more, and often settles into PC preachiness. One would have hoped Eyre would have matured as a filmmaker in the interim. The main character is Rudy Yellow Lodge (Eric Schweig), a reservation cop on the Pine Ridge Reservation for Oglala Sioux in the Black Hills of South Dakota. He is dissatisfied with his ... Read More
Rating: - Because we need to see Native Americans
Prior to Columbus, there were 100M Native Americans.Today, there are less than 3M, but their cultures are still alive and thriving.
"Skins" is the first movie filmed on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Pine Ridge is in the shadow of Mount Rushmore and Wounded Knee is part of the preserve.There are no 'set pieces' on this reservation.Yes, it looks like a Third World Country, because that is precisely what it is.Listen to the statistics at the front of this movie.
The ... Read More
Rating: - What can I say?
GREAT MOVIE!I have YET to see a movie with Graham Greene that WASN'T a fantastic film!
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