Film

The Indian Runner 1991

Directed by Sean Penn

  • Drama
  • 127 min
  • R

Two brothers cannot overcome their opposite perceptions of life. One brother sees and feels bad in everyone and everything, subsequently he is violent, antisocial and unable to appreciate or enjoy the good things which his brother desperately tries to point out to him.

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Earnest, grave, classical in form and character-led.

  • earnestironic
  • gravecomic
  • classical in formformally daring
  • character-ledplot-driven
  • unpretentiousprestige

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