The road movie gets a smart update with this seriocomic tale of two Cheyenne men traveling from their reservation in Montana to New Mexico. For one of them, Buddy Red Bow (A Martinez), a quick-tempered activist, the journey is a practical one; his sister has been arrested and he is the only family member who can help her out. Buddy has no transportation, so he's forced to ride with Philbert Bono (Gary Farmer), a phlegmatic hulk of a man who is using his 1964 Buick as a vehicle for a spiritual journey of his own. Philbert's ...
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The road movie gets a smart update with this seriocomic tale of two Cheyenne men traveling from their reservation in Montana to New Mexico. For one of them, Buddy Red Bow (A Martinez), a quick-tempered activist, the journey is a practical one; his sister has been arrested and he is the only family member who can help her out. Buddy has no transportation, so he's forced to ride with Philbert Bono (Gary Farmer), a phlegmatic hulk of a man who is using his 1964 Buick as a vehicle for a spiritual journey of his own. Philbert's easygoing ways and insistence on frequent stops to meditate prove irritating at first to Buddy, but the men reach an accommodation as the trip wears on. Buddy comes to see that blaming the white man and what he sees as system rigged against Native Americans is distracting him from his true mission: to better understand himself and his place in the world. Tom Wiener, Rovi
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A. Martinez, Gary Farmer, Amanda Wyss, Joanelle Nadine Romero, Sam Vlahos. Run time: 105 mins. Aspect ratio: 1.85: 1. Originally released: 1989. Language: English.
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An Indian man, believing in signs and wonders from the ancestors, dreaming of being a warrior and having a typical Indian car(an old beater) agrees to help his modern thinking friend rescue his sister from jail in another state.The long and arduous journey from here to there goes off on many a mystical and unexpected twist and turn ending with a deeper friendship between all involved.