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Imserba Webstore - Spirit Rider
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List Price: $7.98
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Manufacturer: Allumination
Starring: Herbie Barnes, Adam Beach, Tantoo Cardinal, Thomas Jackson, Michelle St. John
Directed By: Michael Scott
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: BEACH,ADAM
EAN: 0084296408016
Format: Color
Label: Allumination
Manufacturer: Allumination
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Allumination
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2005-08-23
Running Time: 90
Studio: Allumination
Theatrical Release Date: 1993
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Genre: Feature Film Family
Rating: NR
Release Date: 15-NOV-2005
Media Type: DVD
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Summary: Loved it
Comment: Despite other negative reviews I though I'd go for it because of Graham Greene. Don't buy it if you're after adventure and thrills, but it's a quiet, well acted story of Indian youth-but it is a tad predictable!
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Summary: Spirit Rider
Comment: I really enjoy all movies about Indians and their life since our family is part American Indian. thank you.
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Summary: Spirit Rider
Comment: Another successful purchase from Amazon, item arrived safely and promptly, I'm very happy with my purchase.
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Summary: A Moral to the Story
Comment: Most of the movies today are filthy and downright vulgar, lacking any values or morals at all. I can't beleive that's what "most" people want.
This movie is a great story and has a moral to it. I'm sure you'll enjoy too.
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Summary: Healing children of broken homes Canadian First Nations homes
Comment: Most notable as the debut (in a part with a character name) of Adam Beach (Flag of Our Fathers, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee), this made-for-Canadian-tv movie is quite predictable, but buoyed by fine performances from the adolescent actors: Herbie Barnes in the lead role, Beach as his antagonist, and Michelle St. John as the apex of their love triangle.
Contrary to the Amazon description, Graham Greene is on hand as the wry local (to the Anishinabe, aka Ojibwe) radio announcer (Graham Greene) who has taken on raising the orphaned and anger-filled boy Adam Beach plays (Paul). The grandfather who is taking on his very alienated grandson (Barnes as Jesse) who resents being plucked from Winnipeg and plopped down on the reservation was played (well) by Gordon Tootoosis).
The adults are tactful and try to still the angry hearts of Paul and Jesse, while teaching respect for horses, elders, work, and the land. Although the ending is pat and predictable, the actors made this an enjoyable as well as an unplifting movie. (It was filmed in Manitoba, from where Beach came.)
The only DVD extra is filmographies of Beach and Greene, not the movie's protagonist (Herbie Barnes), though he seems not to have had a career other than costarring with Beach in "The Rez" on Canadian tv, while Beach has taken many roles.
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