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Wind River (2017)

Wind River poster
Directed by
Taylor Sheridan
Genre
Western film, crime film, mystery film, thriller film
Country
United Kingdom, United States
Runtime
1h 47m
Rated
R
Rating
7.4 of 10 from 5,829 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A wildlife tracker and an FBI agent investigate a young woman's death on a remote Wyoming reservation. The harsh winter landscape and the community's silence complicate their search for the truth.

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What happens

Wind River is a 2017 neo-Western crime film written and directed by Taylor Sheridan. It is the third film by Taylor Sheridan on the modern American West. The film stars Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen as a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service tracker and an FBI agent, respectively, who try to solve a murder on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming. Gil Birmingham, Jon Bernthal, and Graham Greene also star. Taylor Sheridan has said that he wrote the film to raise awareness of the issue of the high number of Indigenous women who are raped and murdered, both on and off reservations. Wind River premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and was released in the United States on August 4, 2017. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and was a box office success, grossing $45 million against an $11 million budget. It was theatrically released by the Weinstein Company (TWC), but in October 2017, following the reporting of numerous sexual abuse allegations against Harvey Weinstein, the film's distribution rights for home media were acquired by Lionsgate. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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