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Sunchaser

5 star:		(8)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
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1 star:		(2)

 

 

After watching "Sunchaser", I realize that Woody Harrelson and Jon Seda are TWO VERY UNDER-RATED actors. Acting is, after all, about believability; pursuading the viewer that you are who you SAY you are. Within the first 15 minutes of this movie I believed every word out of these two actor's mouths. Jon Seda is FLAWLESS as a terminally ill, escaped convict, who kidnaps a doctor (Woody Harrelson) in order to make a great journey to a mystical healing lake. Makes for a pretty good flick. Watch it at least once, you'll probably like it.

this movie was great! This film was not only acted well, but directed well. A great must see movie...touching, but not mushy!

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two thumbs up!

when this movie came up yesterday evening on tv i watched it mainly because it was in german, and i had to practice german. not that i really felt like watching it... but, contrary to my former expectationes, i loved it, from the very beginning until the very end. this is woody harrelson's best role EVER, he makes you get into the story and feel how he gradually changes... and jon seda is awesome, too. i recommend this fil to everybody who, like me, think there is still hope...

I've seen this movie when it was on teathers and then bought the vhs when it came out on vhs... Its a great movie and any one who hasn't seen "the sunchaser" should see it. The plot is basically, if i try suming it up ? This doctor "woody harrelson" is suppost to take care of this ill pation "Jon seda" but it doesn't go smoothly and Seda kidnaps Harrelson and because the ill pation " seda" wants to get better and the place to get better is in this mountain so they take this big trip... Its realy a good movie and kinda emotianel. Worth owning ! Dont try looking for this title on dvd because it is only available on vhs.

If you do not give this movie 5 stars, then you have lived a very sheltered life, without heartbreak, or you are just heartless. As a nurse who worked in hospice, it is a wonderful touching portrayal of a dying man's journey to his end. It is presented in such a way that you do not know what to expect next, even if you are experienced with the dying process. The storyline is unique, and the acting is great. What in the world can you find wrong with this movie? I am only disappointed Anne Bancroft's part is not bigger, and that it has not been released on DVD. It was also not publicized. If you have not given this movie a chance, or did not like it because Woody was not funny, reconsider....get a box of kleenex, grow up and realize that not everyone can live a charmed life...sometimes life is just sad, and if you can continue to look for the "medicine man", and look for the good in life....Blessed Be.....

As far as I'm concerned, this movie is the ultimate b***hslap in the face of any of these "new" militant atheists, but enough negativity. This movie is the ultimate Native American campfire story. I've watched it maybe twenty times since it first came out and it still heals my soul in a grandiose way. The two main actors are both excellent at what they do and especially in this movie. This film appears to have been made on a low budget, but this should not be an issue for those who can appreciate fine art, as the acting is top notch and the characters are nearly 100% believable as their roles. If I were to teach a course on religion I would definitely play this film (and the Devil's Advocate) for the class. I thought that it wouldn't ever make it to DVD but alas, here'tis. I advise potential viewers to not be reactant during the story until they can at least reach the second half, where the film starts making sense in a more intelligent way.

I watched this movie when it 1st came out on VHS. Same year when DVD was just a newborn. Wow! Its been that long. Anyway, this is an awesome movie. Woody Harrelson was great and Jon Seda was excellent. Seda was very convincing. Awesome!

Michael Cimino really has no luck sometimes. Despite all his talents, the financial flops he's helmed over the years continue to overshadow all of his artistic triumphs. Most of materials on this film deal chiefy with the fact that it flopped disastrously at the box office and say little to nothing about the work itself. Most will probably write it off as a footnote in a once-powerful director's increasingly stagnant career, but a few will no doubt wonder 'What about the film itself? Does it really deserve obscurity?'

As it turns out, the film itself functions as a fairly straightforward, yet impecabbly executed and never boring, road movie. Spirituality lies at the center of this offbeat film, which comes as a surprise for Cimino. Most of his films revolve around gritty realism and moral struggles that border on the Herculean, so for him to deal with this subject matter feels quite refreshing. The script, helmed by Charles Leavitt of "Blood Diamond" and "K-Pax" fame, never loses track of the central quest and keeps the film moving when it could have simply navel-gazed. Lastly, Cimino brings all of the natural grandeur and idiosyncratic melodrama that made him famous in the first place. He shoots the desert and mountain vistas as if they were the sublime incarnate or, more fittingly, the sacred spaces which the Navajo characters revere them as being.

All in all, this film will probably only ever be truly appreciated by cinephiles. Still, one can only hope that more and more free-thinking aesthetes venture beyond "The Deer Hunter" and appreciate the beauty found in this film, as well as the rest of Cimino's collective works.

I love this film. It starts in utter bleakness, grimness even, which makes the last part in contrast all the more resplendant and dazzling - You almost feel you're flying out of your body in glorious freedom when you see the end; it hardly ever fails to move me to tears ( and more now than the first time I saw it).

The reviews left out an important 'detail' : The patient is NATIVE AMERICAN, and he is looking for a NAVAJO sacred place. Not only do we meet a few NAVAJO people on the way ( and beautiful shots of their horses running like wild), but we ride ( and then walk and climb) through the most magnificent, glorious CANYON landscapes and through all manners of NAVAJOLAND expanses, desertic or lush, flat or mountainous in succession.
With the build-up of a long search for the SACRED PLACE, you are struck in a deep place inside you when you are finally starting on the right path towards the top, knowing it strikes such a sense of sacredness in the first people who lived there.

The movie was filmed in California, Moab,Utah and Colorado. I own the wolf-hybrid in the film. It had the potential to have been a great, good feeling, spiritual film, but just came up short. It had the feel of a cheaply made film done by people who didn't care much for quality.