Release Date

10 Mar, 1995

Runtime

01:24: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

After the party's over, real life kicks into gear.

Explores the sensitive, and tense, relationship between life on an First Nations reservation and life in the outside world. When Native Canadian Silas Crow is forced to write a personal essay in order to get a much-desired job, he tells the story of the rape and murder of an Indian girl by a drunken thug. When the killer received a lenient two-year sentence for manslaughter, the First Nations community felt shock and anger—and tried desperately to deal with the after-effects of this lack of justice.

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Actors

Ryan Rajendra Black

Adam Beach

Jennifer Podemski

Lisa LaCroix

Kevin Hicks

Rose Marie Trudeau

Gloria May Eshkibok

Selim Running Bear Sandoval

Sandrine Holt

Tamara Podemski

Herbie Barnes

Hugh Dillon

Vince Manitowabi

Robert Frank Pegahmagabow

Michael Greyeyes

Crew

Bruce McDonald

Brian Dennis

Sarah Miller Hayward

Norman Jewison

Bruce McDonald

Michael Pacek

John Dondertman

Maureen Sless

Beth Pasternak

John Frizzell

Bruce McDonald

Don McKellar

Mychael Danna

W.P. Kinsella