Successful young gay poet Seymour Polatkin (Adams) escaped the Spokane Reservation to attend college and settle in Seattle many years ago. The funeral of a boyhood friend, the fiddler known as "Mouse" who committed suicide, brings him back to the res and people from his past: the perpetually angry Ari (Tagaborn), and Agnes (St. John), a half-Indian, half-Jewish woman with whom Seymour had a passionate affair in college before accepting his homosexuality. The film is a collage of natural and contrived imagery, with many flashbacks as well as scenes where the principle characters dance in costume or are grilled by an interviewer on a black set. Decent acting and writing, but a lot of loose ends. This 2002 film is Indian writer Sherman Alexie's directorial debut, taking off from his book of poems of the same name. (Previously, he wrote the screenplay for 1998's "Smoke Signals.")
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The review of this Movie prepared by David Loftus