The Indian Runner

The Indian Runner is a written American film, carried out and produced by Sean Penn left in 1991.

The history is the development of the song Highway Patrolman of Bruce Springsteen.

Synopsis

1968. Joe Roberts and his young Frank brother grew in Plattsmouth, in Nebraska. Children, they are very close. Frank, violent and undisciplined, is a teenager with problems then he leaves for Vietnam. Joe, missed farmer, becomes police officer. The very same day where Joe, in a state of self-defense, had to kill a delinquent, Frank returns from Vietnam. Joe preaches the traditional values of his country while Frank seeks a direction which is not absurd with its life.

" Indian Runner" is inspired by an old Indian legend on the test which young people must pass to enter the adulthood.

Data sheet

original Title: The Indian Runner
Realizer: Producing Sean Penn
: Sean Penn and Gift Philips
Scenario: Sean Penn
Production: Mount Group-Mico Film and Columbia Pictures Corporation for the USA, NHK Japan Broadcasting Corporation for Japan
Photography: Anthony B. Richmond
Music: Jack Nitzsche with the participation of David Lindley
Language: English
Formats: 1.85: 1, 35 mm, Dolby SR
Kind: drama
Year of production: 1990
Left to France: October 9th 1991
Film prohibited with less than 12 years

Distribution

David Morse: Joe Roberts
Viggo Mortensen: Frank Roberts
Valeria Golino : Maria
Patricia Arquette: Dorothy
Charles Bronson: Mr. Roberts
Sandy Refusals: Mrs. Roberts
Refusals Hopper: Caesar

Reward

Golden delicious Leopard with the Film International festival of Locarno in 1991

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