Skinwalkers (2002)

Directed by

Chris Eyre

Genre

mystery film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 40m

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 15 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Native American police officer investigates a series of murders on a Navajo reservation. The story follows his partnership with a seasoned tribal cop as they navigate local customs and old rivalries.

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What happens

Skinwalkers is a 2002 mystery television film based on the novel of the same name by Tony Hillerman, one of his series of mysteries set within contemporary Navajo life in the Southwest. It features an all-Native cast, with Adam Beach and Wes Studi playing officers Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn, respectively. It was produced as part of the PBS Mystery! series, filmed on the Navajo reservation and directed by Chris Eyre. Written by his son James, it was the second of executive producer Robert Redford's efforts to adapt Hillerman's novels, following the film The Dark Wind (1991), which he had been unsatisfied with, and preceding the television series Dark Winds (2022–present), which would be his final work. The film was the highest rated program of 2002 on PBS. It is the first of three television films based on the same series of books, the other two being adaptations of A Thief of Time and Coyote Waits. It was repackaged in 2016 with the two following films as Skinwalkers: The Navajo Mysteries on Netflix. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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