Pow Wow Highway
by Jonathan Wacks
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Actor: A Martinez, Amanda Wyss, Gary Farmer, Joannelle Nadine Romero, Sam VlahosDirector: Jonathan Wacks
Brand: STARZ/SPHE
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 87 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-11-23
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Movie Reviews of Pow Wow Highway
Movie Review: Funny yet serious
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie rates in my all time top twenty-five. At times it is very funny and others quite serious. Gary Farmer has his best role here as a worldwind dreamer. Great music in the movie with some real classics from yesteryear.
Summary of Pow Wow Highway
For the Northern Cheyenne tribe of Lame Deer, Montana, the American Dream has taken a grim detour. Here, Buddy Red Bow (A Martinez) is a committed activist battling a suspicious land-grab. Philbert Bono (Gary Farmer, in a performance Roger Ebert calls "one of the most wholly convincing I've seen") is a serene spiritual warrior guided by sacred visions. But when Buddy's estranged sister is framed and jailed in New Mexico, the two men take Philbert's rust-wrecked '64 Buick 'war pony' on a road trip that makes some very unexpected stops along the way. Jonathan Wacks (Producer of REPO MAN) directs and Graham Greene (DANCES WITH WOLVES), Wes Studi (THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS, HEAT) and Amanda Wyss star in this acclaimed comedy/drama about Native Americans understanding the past, fighting for their future and discovering a few surprising truths along the POWWOW HIGHWAY.Gary Farmer (Smoke Signals) is the standout in a fine film by Jonathan Wacks about an oversized Cheyenne man-child (Farmer) who decides to go on a spiritual quest, while simultaneously giving a ride to his lifelong Indian activist friend (A. Martinez). The film takes us through some pretty desolate Indian communities, but while Wacks makes a point of revealing harsher aspects of life on some reservations, the emphasis is on Farmer's delightful performance. A bonus: among the cast are Graham Greene (Dances with Wolves) and Wes Studi (The Last of the Mohicans), neither of whom were well-known in 1989, the year this film was released. --Tom Keogh
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