Skins
starring: Joseph American Horse, Nathaniel Arcand, Wilda Asimont, Dave Bald Eagle, Bruce Bennett (IV)
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Studio: First Look Home EntertainRelease Date: 05/25/2004Run time: 87 minutesRating: R
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A dark and moving tale of bitter helplessness turned to vigilante rage, Skins is the second feature film directed by Chris Eyre (Smoke Signals). As with the previous movie, Skins concerns two very different and determined protagonists who have grown up together: a cop, Rudy Yellow Lodge (Eric Schweig), on the Lakota reservation's police force, and his older brother Mogie (Graham Greene), an unrepentant drunk. Frustrated by Mogie's self-destruction and outraged by rampant alcoholism throughout the rez (with the disease's concomitant social violence and general hell-raising at an all-time high), Rudy resorts to off-duty, anonymous jungle justice--beating suspects and torching a Nebraska border-town liquor store--with tragic consequences. Eyre's unflinching eye for reservation horrors and the exploitation of Indians is compelling; his compassion for characters grasping at hope is equally strong. Skins benefits mightily from Schweig and Greene's strong performances; in all, this is an underrated drama waiting for a real audience. --Tom Keogh
Studio: First Look Home EntertainRelease Date: 05/25/2004Run time: 87 minutesRating: R
Amazon.com:
A dark and moving tale of bitter helplessness turned to vigilante rage, Skins is the second feature film directed by Chris Eyre (Smoke Signals). As with the previous movie, Skins concerns two very different and determined protagonists who have grown up together: a cop, Rudy Yellow Lodge (Eric Schweig), on the Lakota reservation's police force, and his older brother Mogie (Graham Greene), an unrepentant drunk. Frustrated by Mogie's self-destruction and outraged by rampant alcoholism throughout the rez (with the disease's concomitant social violence and general hell-raising at an all-time high), Rudy resorts to off-duty, anonymous jungle justice--beating suspects and torching a Nebraska border-town liquor store--with tragic consequences. Eyre's unflinching eye for reservation horrors and the exploitation of Indians is compelling; his compassion for characters grasping at hope is equally strong. Skins benefits mightily from Schweig and Greene's strong performances; in all, this is an underrated drama waiting for a real audience. --Tom Keogh
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: 
- Great Flick
Great movie concerning Native American issues.I just wish for more an array of Native American actors.There are too many Native movies with the same cast in them.They are all great, but a variety of faces would be welcome!
Rating: - Touching story
If you loved 'Smoke Signals', you'll love this touching story as well. Two brothers have their own separate, yet similar, struggles as they cope with the poverty and loss of hope their people has had to endure for years on the Pine Ridge Reservation (actually filmed on the Reservation). One brother sinks into a bottle of booze while brother Rudy, a police officer who becomes more and more frustrated, begins to try to solve his people's problems on his own. I loved the flashbacks of Native American ... Read More
Rating: - Review of Skins
This is a modern Native American story, and we Americans MUST step up and take respondsability for the social problems of the modern Native Americans because over the last 300 years we have made today's problems
Rating: 
- Not the Lakota way.
It's sad that this movie had to dwell on the negative stereotypes of our reservation life.It was also sad if not pitiful that the cop portrayed by Schweig had to commit a cowardly sneak attack on two drunken teenagers and break their knees with a baseball bat, then he sneaks down to White Clay, again like a cowardly thief in the night, and throws gas on a package store, and setting it on fire, almost kills his own brother.Then, as his final insult, again at night, he sneaks up on Mt. Rushmore and ... Read More
Rating: 
- Disappointing
Skins is director Chris Eyre's follow up to the 1997 Native American film Smoke Signals. Like the first film Skins is a comedy drama that has moments, and is a sound film, but could have done a bit more, and often settles into PC preachiness. One would have hoped Eyre would have matured as a filmmaker in the interim. The main character is Rudy Yellow Lodge (Eric Schweig), a reservation cop on the Pine Ridge Reservation for Oglala Sioux in the Black Hills of South Dakota. He is dissatisfied with his job ... Read More
- Great FlickGreat movie concerning Native American issues.I just wish for more an array of Native American actors.There are too many Native movies with the same cast in them.They are all great, but a variety of faces would be welcome!
- Touching storyIf you loved 'Smoke Signals', you'll love this touching story as well. Two brothers have their own separate, yet similar, struggles as they cope with the poverty and loss of hope their people has had to endure for years on the Pine Ridge Reservation (actually filmed on the Reservation). One brother sinks into a bottle of booze while brother Rudy, a police officer who becomes more and more frustrated, begins to try to solve his people's problems on his own. I loved the flashbacks of Native American ... Read More
- Review of SkinsThis is a modern Native American story, and we Americans MUST step up and take respondsability for the social problems of the modern Native Americans because over the last 300 years we have made today's problems
- Not the Lakota way.It's sad that this movie had to dwell on the negative stereotypes of our reservation life.It was also sad if not pitiful that the cop portrayed by Schweig had to commit a cowardly sneak attack on two drunken teenagers and break their knees with a baseball bat, then he sneaks down to White Clay, again like a cowardly thief in the night, and throws gas on a package store, and setting it on fire, almost kills his own brother.Then, as his final insult, again at night, he sneaks up on Mt. Rushmore and ... Read More
- DisappointingSkins is director Chris Eyre's follow up to the 1997 Native American film Smoke Signals. Like the first film Skins is a comedy drama that has moments, and is a sound film, but could have done a bit more, and often settles into PC preachiness. One would have hoped Eyre would have matured as a filmmaker in the interim. The main character is Rudy Yellow Lodge (Eric Schweig), a reservation cop on the Pine Ridge Reservation for Oglala Sioux in the Black Hills of South Dakota. He is dissatisfied with his job ... Read More
