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Release date: August 4, 2017 (limited; expands: Aug. 11)
Studio: The Weinstein Company
Director: Taylor Sheridan
MPAA Rating: R (for strong violence, a rape, disturbing images, and language)
Screenwriter: Taylor Sheridan
Genre: Thriller

Starring: Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen, Gil Birmingham, Jon Bernthal, Julia Jones, Kelsey Asbille, James Jordan

Plot Summary:
The film follows a rookie female FBI agent (Olsen) who teams up with a veteran, local game tracker with a haunted past (Renner) to investigates a murder on a remote Native American Reservation in the hopes of avenging the girl’s death.

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We saw this last night and really enjoyed it.

A bit of a somber movie but very well done.

Very impressed with writer and director Taylor Sheridan.

And Jeremy Renner was excellent
 

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We saw this last night and really enjoyed it.

A bit of a somber movie but very well done.

Very impressed with writer and director Taylor Sheridan.

And Jeremy Renner was excellent

I have to agree that this was excellent. My buddy and I saw it and really appreciated the light touches and subtle strokes that gave this movie depth.
 

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One of my employees saw this and said it was good, but the director is pigeonholing himself into doing these kind of films.
 

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Dark thrillers, ending with extreme violence, tackling a social issue but not going overboard or slamming you over the head with it.


OK Gotcha. Looks like this is only his second directing credit, but you are probably referring to his screenwriting.

I guess we'll have to what kind of range he has going forward. Maybe he will surprise us with a romantic comedy next. ;)

He does have a lot of passion for social issues though and sees film as a way to bring about social change. Found this on IMBD

It is the great shame of my nation the manner in which it has treated the native inhabitants of North America. Sadly, my government continues that shame with an insidious mixture of apathy and exploitation. (...) There is nothing I can do to change the issues afflicting Indian country, but what we can do as artists - and must do - is scream about them with fists clenched. What we can do - is make sure these issues aren't ignored. Then the people who can effect change will be forced to. [Cannes 2017]
 

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This movie was flipping fantastic... Just got back and enjoyed the hell out of it..
 

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One of my employees saw this and said it was good, but the director is pigeonholing himself into doing these kind of films.

getting two WGA Best Screenplay noms, along with an Oscar Nom and another highly praised movie seems like a place a lot of writers would kill to be pigeonholed into!

Dude can do whatever he wants at this point. I'm sure the Marvel/DCs of the world are banging down his door, and as a screenwriter, he's probably doing a ton of big money/no credit rewrites, but if he wanted to go big with an idea, I think you'd have most studios willing to pony up cash, especially since he keeps writing meaty roles that attract A List talent.. or give B+ list talent the chance for A+ performances.
 

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Got my tix for Friday night. Pumped to see this.
 

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This is a darn good movie. Just enough humor, sadness, revenge... and the violence was, well violent.

We watched it in a theater I had never been to... Flix Brewhouse. Pretty neat setup. You can eat in the little pub in the lobby or you can be served in the actual theater itself by an attendant. Great experience there.
 

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I just watched this again tonight. Just as good as the first time. Worth your time, imo
 

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just caught this on netflix...y'all were talking it up so much I figured I would check it out.

good flick. very mild and matter of fact. It was predictable but very well done

never did get that damned lion though
 

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OK Gotcha. Looks like this is only his second directing credit, but you are probably referring to his screenwriting.

I guess we'll have to what kind of range he has going forward. Maybe he will surprise us with a romantic comedy next. ;)

He does have a lot of passion for social issues though and sees film as a way to bring about social change. Found this on IMBD



During the course of the shoot, writer-director Taylor Sheridan was visited on set by some Shoshone tribal leaders who astonished him with the revelation that, at that very time, there were 12 unsolved murders of young women on a reservation of about 6,000 people. Due to a 1978 landmark government ruling (Oliphant v. Suquamish), the Supreme Court stripped tribes of the right to arrest and prosecute non-natives who commit crimes on native land. If neither victim nor perpetrator are native, a county or state officer must make the arrest. If the perpetrator is non-native and the victim an enrolled member, only a federally-certified agent has that right. If the opposite is true, a tribal officer can make the arrest, but the case must still go to federal court. This quagmire creates a jurisdictional nightmare by choking up the legal process on reservations to such a degree, many criminals go unpunished indefinitely for serious crimes.

Yeah, this is messed up.

I didn't know Taylor Sheridan did Yellowstone. I might have to check that out now.
 

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During the course of the shoot, writer-director Taylor Sheridan was visited on set by some Shoshone tribal leaders who astonished him with the revelation that, at that very time, there were 12 unsolved murders of young women on a reservation of about 6,000 people. Due to a 1978 landmark government ruling (Oliphant v. Suquamish), the Supreme Court stripped tribes of the right to arrest and prosecute non-natives who commit crimes on native land. If neither victim nor perpetrator are native, a county or state officer must make the arrest. If the perpetrator is non-native and the victim an enrolled member, only a federally-certified agent has that right. If the opposite is true, a tribal officer can make the arrest, but the case must still go to federal court. This quagmire creates a jurisdictional nightmare by choking up the legal process on reservations to such a degree, many criminals go unpunished indefinitely for serious crimes.

Yeah, this is messed up.

I didn't know Taylor Sheridan did Yellowstone. I might have to check that out now.


Speaking of Wind River, I stumbled across 4 videos by Mediocre Amateur hiking through the area, ridiculously beautiful, here's one:

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Assuming this is the same area (?), the film only touched upon some of this.
 

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Speaking of Wind River, I stumbled across 4 videos by Mediocre Amateur hiking through the area, ridiculously beautiful, here's one:

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Assuming this is the same area (?), the film only touched upon some of this.
Yep, that would be a nice hike.
 

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