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01/09/06
Skins (2002)
60 %
Reviews Counted: 57 Fresh: 34 Rotten:23 Average Rating: 5.9/10
Consensus:
Though at times melodramatic, Skins' harsh depiction of life on the reservation is an eye-opener.
Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins
Synopsis: SKINS, based on the novel by Adrian C. Louis, is the impressive second feature of Native American director Chris Eyre (SMOKE SIGNALS). Filmed on location at the Pine Ridge Oglala Lakota reservation in South Dakota, SKINS tells the story of Rudy (Eric Schweig), a policeman, and his older... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Eric Schweig, Graham Greene, Noah Watts, Lois Red Elk, Gary Farmer
Director: Chris Eyre
Screenwriter: Jennifer D. Lyne
Producer: Jon Kilik, David Pomier
Composer: B.C. Smith
Screenwriter: Jennifer D. Lyne
Producer: Jon Kilik, David Pomier
Composer: B.C. Smith
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09/17/03
Like Smoke Signals, the film is also imbued with strong themes of familial ties and spirituality that are powerful and moving without stooping to base melodrama
05/23/03
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01/08/03
Skins is a wrenching, uncompromisingly bleak film, but its stars ... fill the screen with warmth, humor and spiritual yearning in the face of hardship and tragedy.
12/13/02
Top Critic
Rather quickly, the film falls into a soothing formula of brotherly conflict and reconciliation.
12/13/02
Whatever Eyre’s failings as a dramatist, he deserves credit for bringing audiences into this hard and bitter place.
12/12/02
Director Chris Eyre is going through the paces again with his usual high melodramatic style of filmmaking.
12/08/02
Though the aboriginal aspect lends the ending an extraordinary poignancy, and the story itself could be played out in any working class community in the nation.
12/02/02
It lacks the compassion, good-natured humor and the level of insight that made [Eyre's] first film something of a sleeper success.
11/29/02
Thanks to strong performances by Schweig and Greene, the results are powerful and heartbreaking.
11/29/02
There's a certain raggedness and preachiness to the picture, but ultimately its simplicity and basic integrity shine through and compensate for the flaws.
11/21/02
Top Critic
Eric Schweig and Graham Greene both exude an air of dignity that's perfect for the proud warrior that still lingers in the souls of these characters.
11/08/02
It's a haunting indictment of a situation that has by and large been swept under the rug by Americans -- a stirring look at one man's impotent rage.
11/07/02
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