Skins (2002)

Directed by

Chris Eyre

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 24m

Rated

R

Rating

5.3 of 10 from 17 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Lakota Sioux police officer on a South Dakota reservation tries to help his alcoholic brother who is a Vietnam veteran. The film shows their daily struggles and the harsh realities of life on the reservation.

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What happens

Skins is a 2002 American feature film by Chris Eyre and based upon the novel of the same name by Adrian C. Louis. It was filmed on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (renamed the fictional Beaver Creek Indian Reservation in the film), which served as the setting in the novel. Lakota Sioux tribal police officer Rudy Yellow Lodge (Eric Schweig) struggles to rescue his older, alcoholic brother, Mogie (Graham Greene), a former football star who was wounded in combat three times in Vietnam. Winona LaDuke makes a cameo appearance as Rose Two Buffalo. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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