The Doe Boy
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Movie Reviews of The Doe Boy
Movie Review: As Good As Indie Films Get
Summary: 5 Stars
Talk about movies that slip under the radar! Almost nobody heard about Doe Boy and there really isn't a good - or acceptable reason.
Slowly paced this very gentle film packs an emotional wallop few films with bigger budgets, more stars and loftier stories could hope to achieve. Doe Boy is about Hunter - a boy with an American Indian mother and white father. Hunter is a hemophiliac, a disease seemingly unknown to Native American's. His macho father (a terrific performance by Kevin Anderson) loves his son, but is let down by the boy's inability to be more physically active because of the disease. As the film traces Hunter's story from childhood through his late teens, we see the difficulty of the relationship between he and his father straining and the inability of his mother to let him go and be the man he needs to be.
James Duval gives a performance that is positively incandescent. With relatively little dialogue, and through facial features, body language he fills Hunter with a sense of defiance and the need for acceptance, and the struggle of being different, in more ways than one. Acceptance and understanding do not come easy, but with the aid of his wise grandfather, a beautiful girl, and coming to grips with his heritage and nature, Hunter's journey is one that everyone should be able to relate to.
An amazing, nearly perfect movie.
Movie Review: Amazing Movie!
Summary: 5 Stars
'Doe Boy' is an amazing movie. I can relate to this movie on many levels because my boyfriend of over 7 years has severe hemophilia and is also half-white and half-Native American. It is eerie how this story,at times, seems to be almost taken straight from his life. I wanted to write to inform the other reviewers that Native Americans, such as my boyfriend, do know of and live with this disease. 'Doe Boy' gave a realistic portrayal of the struggles a young man must face in this sometimes 'macho-oriented' world when he is limited physically, in this case due to his illness. The main character in this movie is portrayed as a strong individual, not frail and weak as one may expect of this type of movie. 'Doe Boy' is very well written and well acted. The only 'unreal' things in the movie are minor such as when the main character cuts his hand. In this scene he just lets his blood flow into the water of a stream. If he had severe hemophilia in real life he would need to get to a hospital immediately in order to avoid bleeding to death. It was also not realistic that the main character would be running and jumping off rocks in the woods. Again, if he had severe hemophilia, jumping like this would cause internal bleeding as well. Despite these minor flaws, 'Doe Boy' is an amazing movie that beautifully portrays a young man's struggle with this often misunderstood disease.Movie Review: Modern Day Coming of Age Story
Summary: 5 Stars
I loved this movie when it was being shown on cable television and couldn't wait to add it to the library. It's a well written and creative story-line with very few of the usual stereotypical props of many of the other native-inspired films of today. It definitely is a movie that speaks universally of important issues to the public at large as well as more specifically to a smaller population of individuals seemingly isolated by illness. It's refreshing to watch a predominately native group of people who do not live within the confines of the reservation or reservation living being one of the driving themes. The writer has placed these people within the confines of everyday life with everyday problems. There is racial content, but, again, it is handled in a whole new manner and perspective. The musical score is wonderfully written and compliments the film. I also love the fact that the ending of the story is not clearly defined and left up to the interpretation of the individual. It's a great movie with a wonderfully talented cast. I hope to see more from Randy Redroad in the future.Movie Review: beautiful, haunting film
Summary: 5 Stars
From what I was told, the novel from which this film was based was quite beautiful and moving. If it is anything like this movie, I would definitely read it. The performances were strong, the story was engaging, and the struggles that Hunter, the main character, must go through, living between two worlds--the world of the Whites and the world of the Natives--is noble and heartwrenching to watch. How can he possibly "become a man" in the way his White father sees fit--through becoming a fine hunter (hence, the name)--when he can only shoot a doe? This also crosses over to his mother's culture, where shooting does is the ultimate sin because they symbolize fertility. Hence, the death of the doe is also the death of the generations. Hunter's generations may also be at risk for hemophilia, the disease he acquires--the White man's disease. This film tackles everything--breaking away from family, self definition, first love and the epidemic of HIV.
I definitely reccomend it. It is a fine film, and be sure to have Kleenex handy when you watch it. It is a real tearjerker.
Movie Review: Wonderful coming of age film
Summary: 5 Stars
It's rough growing up in any culture when you're different, especially so in the Cherokees where proving yourself is so critical. And in this story, doing the wrong thing could prove fatal.
Hunter (Andrew J. Ferchland as young boy and James Duval as man) is a Cherokee boy with hemophilia. His mother (Jeri Arredondo) wants to shelter him and his Dad (Kevin Anderson) wants to treat him like a regular warrior. That includes learning to hunt deer.
When Hunter accidentally shoots a doe instead of the manliness proving buck, he's earned the insulting name "Doe Boy". As his Grandfather says, "He wanted a story to tell the rest of his life."
"Doe Boy" is an independent film, written and produced by Randy Redroad. The filming takes place in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, which is Cherokee country and a beautiful place. Acting, music, scenery are all good. Just a well-told.
Rebecca Kyle, August 2008