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American Evil

Release Date 10 Feb 2012 10 Jul 2012

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Certificate: 15

Genre: Drama

The truths of the past come to light in a series of haunting visions in this drama starring Adam Beach, Tantoo Cardinal, and Wes Studi. Traumatized by the strange visions that grow more vivid with each passing day, a young woman of Native American heritage begins piecing together a Catholic priest's diabolical plot to prevent her mother from revealing the atrocities that unfolded at a Native Indian boarding school.~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

Cast:
Sarah Agnew | Jeri Arredondo | Noah Kol Balfour | Dennis Banks | Adam Beach | Raven Bellefleur | Mark Benninghoffen | Rose Berens | Jennifer Blagen | Tantoo Cardinal

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Producers:
Christine K. Walker

Directors:
Georgina Lightning

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    As recently as 1975, Native American children were forced to attend boarding schools that forbade them speaking their own language among other, even more heinous, abuses.Investigating the effects of these state-sponsored crimes on a community, Georgina Lightning’s 2008 sins-of-the-fathers drama stars Windtalkers’ Adam Beach as an earnest police officer, and a pre-HangoverBradley Cooper as an unlikely geologist, but it stumbles somewhat in the telling. Glossy and distanced when it wants to be raw and direct, its worthiness runs deeper than any dramatic interest, and you feel there are better films to be made about this darkest of chapters.