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Film details...

posted 20 years ago by Eric-1226
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Here are some brief details about the film, for those who are curious:

"A Thief of Time" (2003)
Another Tony Hillerman best seller gets "American Mystery!" treatment with this new drama, executive-produced by Robert Redford. Featured previously in "Skinwalkers" and "Coyote Waits," Wes Studi and Adam Beach reteam as American Indian police detectives, this time seeking a missing anthropologist. The investigation ultimately leads them to a rancher (Peter Fonda) who reportedly was the last person to see her.

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[–] Dancing_Bear 17 years ago

My gripe is that we don't get to see excellent actress Sheila Tousey in more films with more varied thematic material. Every time I see her on film it's always a gem of a performance, yet she doesn't get the sort of roles that she could really sink her teeth into. Same gripe with Adam Beach, he could have been great in any of the sort of movies Keanu Reeves gets, but we don't see Adam in the varied sort of roles that I know he would excel in. I think Joe Leaphorn is my favorite Wes Studi character so far, he's wonderful. Couldn't you just see him in a movie like The Fugitive? Or even any of those roles that Bruce Willis always seems to snag. I want to see more great films with these wonderful actors in them, that's my gripe!

[–] l_grds 16 years ago

I agree with your comments. I think that Sheila Tousey is a terrific actress.
At least Adam Beech appeared in Flags of Our Fathers, Windtalkers and Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.
Wes Studi is fabulous.
Ditto for Graham Greene.
And how about Saginaw Grant?
All of these actors are way underused.
I can never understand why whoever controls casting can't get creative and use these fine actors in ANY role. Where is it written that a doctor or a cop or a soldier or a professor, etc., must fit a certain ethnic or racial profile?
The big losers in this are, of course, the actors, but also the audiences who will never see some great performances.