Smoke Signals

1998

Action / Comedy / Drama

9
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 82% · 93 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 82% · 10K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.2/10 10 13330 13.3K

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Plot summary

Young Native American man Thomas is a nerd in his reservation, wearing oversize glasses and telling everyone stories no-one wants to hear. His parents died in a fire in 1976, and Thomas was saved by Arnold. Arnold soon left his family, and Victor hasn't seen his father for 10 years. When Victor hears Arnold has died, Thomas offers him funding for the trip to get Arnold's remains.

Director

Chris Eyre Photo
Chris Eyre

Top cast

Evan Adams Photo
Evan Adams as Thomas Builds-the-Fire
Gary Farmer Photo
Gary Farmer as Arnold Joseph
Irene Bedard Photo
Irene Bedard as Suzy Song
Michael Greyeyes Photo
Michael Greyeyes as Junior Polatkin
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817.57 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 29 min
Seeds 3
1.64 GB
1904*1072
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 29 min
Seeds 18

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Terrell-4 8 / 10

A touching, funny movie about forgiveness, fathers and fry bread. Should we die or have breakfast?

Reviewed by pablo-45 8 / 10

The Seattle Premier

I flew up to Seattle on the '98 July 4th weekend to see the matinee premier on the Friday. Sherman Alexie is a, of course, a well known poetry and prose writer in the Northwest, but this was his first step into cinema with a screenplay based on his short story, 'The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven.'The premiere was at an old, Egyptian-themed cinema in Seattle and the house was half full for the 4:30 matinee. The audience was predominately Native American.On exit, Sherman stood on the sidewalk in the late afternoon Seattle light and waited nervously like a child, to see the reaction to the film (which had ended with unanimous applauds from the half house audience). A film crew was there for exit polling.A diminutive Native American female elder slowly approached Sherman. She moved forward and extended her arms around him into a hug and spoke softly, "Thank you."Sherman was mush.Don't miss this film. He's not 'the Spike Lee of Native American film making' as the Time Magazine of that week put it. He's an independent, regional film maker, whose background is the 'Rez.'
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