Darkly compelling despite being eerily unresolved, CLEARCUT is a crossbreeding of DELIVERANCE-style suspense with social consciousness, and helped immeasurably by a barn burner of a performance from Graham Greene as a murderously vengeful Native American who may or may not be real.
Despite his best efforts, Peter Maguire (Ron Lea), a Toronto lawyer working for a Canadian Native American tribe to stop "clear cut" logging on their tribal lands, is no match for the logging corporation's fleet of top lawyers. Traveling to his clients' reservation to deliver the grim news of his
latest loss, he finds that the corporation has already begun operations opposed by Indian...
Released:
1991
Rated:
R
Length:
96 mins