Rating: R
Genre:
Drama
Release Date: 10/13/2009
SubTitles: Espanol/French
Dubbed: English/Espanol
Sound: DD2
Run Time: 122 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Adult Situations, Questionable for Children
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video
Michael Cimino, the director of
The Deer Hunter and the ill-fated
Heaven's Gate, helmed this bizarre New Age action picture in 1996. Based on a screenplay by
Charles Leavitt, the film stars
Woody Harrelson as Dr. Michael Reynolds, a rich, young L.A. physician who worries more about promotions and buying a $2 million home for his family than about his patients. Reynolds is assigned a 16-year-old convicted murderer, Brandon Monroe (
Jon Seda), as his new patient. Brandon is a half-Cherokee gang member who killed his own stepfather, has terminal cancer, resents his privileged doctors, and has beaten up several pediatricians who've tried to care for him. Brandon gets a gun while going to the bathroom at the hospital and kidnaps Reynolds, stealing a car. While constantly threatening his doctor's life, Brandon takes him on a trip to an Arizona Indian reservation with the aim of immersing himself in a magic lake which native tradition says has healing powers. Along the way, the pair meet up with motorcycle gang members, rattlesnakes, and several New Age philosophers. Eventually, the materialistic doctor and the young tough gain a grudging respect for each other's values, and Reynolds even steals money to buy Brandon medicine.
~ Michael Betzold, All Movie Guide
;)
