An FBI agent teams with the town’s veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.

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Film Cast:

• Cory Lambert: Jeremy Renner
• Jane Banner: Elizabeth Olsen
• Martin Hanson: Gil Birmingham
• Natalie Hanson: Kelsey Asbille
• Casey Lambert: Teo Briones
• Alice Crowheart: Tantoo Cardinal
• Dillon: Matthew Del Negro
• Curtis: Hugh Dillon
• Wilma Lambert: Julia Jones
• Pete Mickens: James Jordan
• Dr. Whitehurst: Eric Lange
• Chip Hanson: Martin Sensmeier
• Matt Rayburn: Jon Bernthal
• Ben: Graham Greene
• Dan Crowheart: Apesanahkwat
• Annie Hanson: Althea Sam
• Sam Littlefeather: Tokala Black Elk
• Frank Walker: Tyler Laracca
• BIA Officer #1: Shayne J. Cullen
• BIA Officer #2: Dallin Tusieseina
• Carl: Austin R. Grant
• Evan: Ian Bohen
• Contractor #1: Gabe Casdorph
• Contractor #2: Mason D. Davis
• Contractor #3: Chris Romrell
• Tim Winter: Blake Robbins
• Dale: Norman Lehnert
• Coroner: Ian Roylance
• Classmate: Gus Sheridan
• Coroner’s Assistant #2 (uncredited): Dana Anquoe
• Native American Police Officer (uncredited): Duy Beck
• BIA Officer (uncredited): David Cardona
• Teacher (uncredited): Teresa Duran-Norvick
• Pedestrian (uncredited): Devin Hansen
• Ingrid (uncredited): Tara Karsian

Film Crew:

• Executive Producer: Bob Weinstein
• Executive Producer: Harvey Weinstein
• Executive Producer: Robert Jones
• Executive Producer: Deepak Nayar
• Executive Producer: Sigurjón Sighvatsson
• Production Design: Neil Spisak
• Executive Producer: Vincent Maraval
• Digital Intermediate: Curtis Lindersmith
• Stunt Coordinator: Wade Allen
• Sound Effects Editor: Roland N. Thai
• Executive Producer: David Glasser
• Producer: Peter Berg
• Original Music Composer: Nick Cave
• Original Music Composer: Warren Ellis
• Executive Producer: Brahim Chioua
• Costume Design: Kari Perkins
• Producer: Basil Iwanyk
• Executive Producer: Tim White
• Editor: Gary D. Roach
• Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Dean A. Zupancic
• Stunts: Peter Epstein
• Camera Operator: Brian Sullivan
• Stunts: Mark Riccardi
• Executive Producer: Agnès Mentre
• Producer: Matthew George
• Casting: Lauren Bass
• Executive Producer: Nicolas Chartier
• Executive Producer: Jonathan Deckter
• Director of Photography: Ben Richardson
• Executive Producer: Wayne Marc Godfrey
• Associate Producer: Arnaud Lannic
• Costume Supervisor: Natalie Pascual
• First Assistant Director: Nicolas Harvard
• Writer: Taylor Sheridan
• Stunts: Dennis Keiffer
• Stunt Double: Joshua Lamboy
• Makeup Designer: Felicity Bowring
• Set Decoration: Cynthia A. Neibaur
• Property Master: Ian Roylance
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Dottie Starling
• Foley: Dan O’Connell
• Foley: John T. Cucci
• Supervising Sound Editor: Alan Robert Murray
• Sound Designer: Tom Ozanich
• Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Tim LeBlanc
• Visual Effects Producer: Ray McIntyre Jr.
• Sculptor: Sam Demke
• Post Production Supervisor: Tim Pedegana
• Casting: Jordan Bass
• Dialogue Editor: Michelle Pazer
• Still Photographer: Fred Hayes
• Supervising Dialogue Editor: Curt Schulkey
• Title Designer: Darin McCormick-Millett
• Executive Producer: Nik Bower
• Associate Producer: Babak Eftekhari
• Sound Effects Editor: Jason King
• Stunt Double: Whitney Coleman
• Stunts: Rockey Dickey Jr.
• Stunts: Randy Haynie
• Aerial Director of Photography: Eric Dvorsky
• Stunts: Eliza Coleman
• Stunt Double: Tim Soergel
• Sound Recordist: Marc Mnémosyne
• Key Makeup Artist: Greg T. Moon
• Producer: Elizabeth A. Bell
• Producer: Wayne L. Rogers
• Stunt Double: Kelly Bellini
• Gaffer: Corrin Hodgson
• Executive Producer: Braden Aftergood
• Best Boy Electric: Judd Hillman
• Stunts: Matt Baker
• Executive Producer: Trevor White
• Stunts: Brent Steffensen
• Camera Operator: Jed Seus
• Lighting Technician: J. Owen Rogers
• Hairstylist: Megan Danner
• Art Direction: Lauren Slatten
• Stunts: Braxton McAllister
• Boom Operator: John H. Virgo
• First Assistant “B” Camera: Kurtis Burr
• Key Costumer: Shantell Guy
• Art Department Coordinator: Laura Lee Langton
• Stunts: Arturo Dickey
• Construction Foreman: Kimo Jones
• Special Effects Coordinator: Ryan Roundy
• Assistant Property Master: Michelle Fairbank
• Stunt Double: Ethan Blackham
• Executive Producer: Jonathan Fuhrman
• Executive Producer: Erica Lee
• Unit Production Manager: Christopher H. Warner
• Production Supervisor: Jennifer Chapman
• Location Manager: Michael Chickey
• Location Manager: Kent R. Findlay
• Location Scout: Ramiro ‘Melo’ Flores
• Production Coordinator: Montana Peterson
• Script Supervisor: Melissa Yount
• Key Grip: Craig Sullivan
• Construction Coordinator: Shane Feulner
• Dolly Grip: J.J. Johnson
• Hair Department Head: Tim Muir
• Armorer: John Munoa
• Armorer: Colin Olsen
• Armorer: Michael Olsen
• Animal Coordinator: Paul ‘Sled’ Reynolds
• Foley Editor: Goeun Lee
• ADR Mixer: Thomas J. O’Connell
• Stunt Double: Kevin Derr
• Second Assistant Director: Jason Altieri
• Hairstylist: Bobbi Murphy
• Associate Producer: David Lazarus
• Associate Producer: Alexandra Jardine
• Greensman: Larry Filion
• Leadman: Tyler Mann
• Graphic Designer: Casey William Walker
• Second Assistant Camera: Angel Fisher
• ADR Recordist: Jon Buice
• Pilot: Orin ‘Spike’ Kinghorn
• Stunts: Jim Palmer
• Stunts: Jake Lawlor
• Stunts: Brandon Cornell

Movie Reviews:

• Gimly: The icy tundra of Wind River is an oppressive backdrop for this vicious crime thriller, with tones of Western.

  _Final rating:★★★½ – I really liked it. Would strongly recommend you give it your time._

• Wuchak: RELEASED IN 2017 and written & directed by Taylor Sheridan, “Wind River” chronicles events at the remote Wind River Indian Reservation where a curiously barefooted young Native woman is found dead in the wilderness; a Fish & Wildlife tracker (Jeremy Renner) and an FBI agent (Elizabeth Olsen) team-up to solve the mystery. Graham Greene plays the Reservation police chief, Gil Birmingham appears as the victim’s grieving father and Jon Bernthal & James Jordan are on hand as security guards at a drill site. There are several others.

  The film is based on hundreds of actual stories similar to it. The issue of assault against Native women on Reservations, many mysteriously disappearing, has existed since the inception of the Reservation system, but in the past 15-20 years it has exploded and yet gets no attention, which was the motivation for the film. In ages past the tribes (e.g. Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho) would migrate out of the area during the unrelenting winters, but the Reservation system basically forces the tribespeople to permanently stay where people weren’t meant to live year round (or so it is argued).

  This is a straight-forward crime drama/murder mystery/thriller taking place completely in wintery conditions in the remote modern American West. The story starts kind of dull, but interest slowly builds until everything eventually explodes in the second half. If you like stories where the clues slowly lead to the culprit/culprits you’ll probably like this movie. Renner is a quality taciturn Westerner and likable Olsen with her cutie face & figure is strong on the female front. The action scenes are effective because they’re sudden & realistic and not over-the-top cartoonish.

  THE MOVIE RUNS 1 hour 47 minutes and was shot in Utah (Coalville and Park City Studios) and Wyoming (Wind River Reservation, Fremont County and Lander).

  GRADE: A-

• write2topcat: I love this film for many reasons. It’s not an overly complicated film. But it is well done. The setting is a Native American Reservation in Wyoming. The land is starkly beautiful. Winter here is harsh and unforgiving. I love the outdoors, and I love the tough, isolated, lifestyle of those living far from civilization, so I enjoyed this film from the start. The cast is very good, the acting also. I don’t need a lot of surprise twists and a shocking ending in a detective story in order to enjoy a film, so it doesn’t bother me at all that this one doesn’t have that. The things which make this film different make it more enjoyable to me.

  I am frankly tired of the ‘action/mystery’ movies and the familiar formulas and techniques they employ: the rapid shift of camera perspectives used to simulate fighting action, the 70’s reminiscent, ‘fast n furious’ car stunt segments with their blaring music, etc. Pharmaceutical companies, oil companies, preachers, and social conservatives are so frequently employed as villains in such films that it’s beyond boring now. This film is different.

  It tells a story about the brutal death of an Indian girl, and her missing boyfriend. We see the actions of a few dedicated, over worked, law officers trying to solve the crime and bring the perpetrator to justice, and a civilian tracker contracted to help them. It pushes no hidden or thinly veiled agenda.
  It’s just a story, set in the modern west, about human nature, crime, and justice.