This fish-out-of-water tale features Graham Greene (an Academy Award nominee for DANCES WITH WOLVES) as a Native American whose loyalties are divided between his cosmopolitan lifestyle and the homeland he abandoned years ago.
The death of his mother brings Will (Greene), an international photojournalist, back to the Blackfoot community of Medicine River for the first time in 20 years. After paying his respects, Will is eager to return to his work and his editor-girlfriend (Janet-Laine Green) in Toronto, but his stay
is prolonged due to the machinations of Harlen Bigbear (Tom Jackson), an affable con artist who enlists the reluctant Will in a fund-raising schem...
Released:
1994
Rated:
NR
Length:
96 mins