Silent Tongue (1993)

Directed by

Sam Shepard

Genre

drama film, horror film, ghost film

Country

United Kingdom, France, Netherlands, United States

Runtime

1h 42m

Rated

G

Rating

4.7 of 10 from 20 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man grieves his dead wife and her ghost remains tied to the land. Her father tries to buy a new wife from another tribe. The story follows their tensions and sorrow in the American West.

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What happens

Silent Tongue is a 1993 American horror Western film written and directed by Sam Shepard. It was filmed in the spring of 1992 and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 28, 1993 but not released theatrically until a year later in 1994. It was filmed near Roswell, New Mexico and features Richard Harris, Sheila Tousey, Alan Bates, Dermot Mulroney and River Phoenix. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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