‘Thunderheart’ comes to Movie Night at the Museum
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“Thunderheart,” starring Val Kilmer, Sam Shepard and Graham Green will be shown at Movie Night at the Museum Jan. 27. (Courtesy photo)
“Thunderheart,” the 1992 dramatized retelling of the Wounded Knee Incident, which took place in 1972, is the feature film for Movie Night at the Museum Jan. 27.
An FBI agent with ancestral ties to the Sioux people (Val Kilmer) comes to a reservation in South Dakota to work on a murder investigation along with a seasoned FBI detective (Sam Shepard) and tribal police officer Walter Crow Horse (Oscar-nominated Graham Greene).
Filmed primarily on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota with shots of Badlands National Park, the film explores discrimination, poverty, government corruption and political activism amid a thriller-like plot and attention to detail. The film is rated R.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the movie starts at 7 p.m. in the Swanberg Classroom at the Northwest Montana History Museum, 124 Second Ave. E., Kalispell. Host and educator Jacob Thomas will provide prescreening remarks.
Admission and popcorn are free. Soda, water, beer and wine will be available for purchase. Seating is provided, but attendees are welcome to bring their own. For more information call 756-8381 or visit nwmthistory.org.