Taglines: The truth was buried with his mother. Revenge was his only choice.
Sioux City movie storyline. A young Lakota Sioux, adopted by a wealthy Jewish couple in Beverly Hills, gets in touch with his cultural roots and solves a mystery in this thriller. Because of his upbringing, Jesse Rainfeather Goldman knows almost nothing of Native American traditions. He is doing his internship when he suddenly receives an amulet from the Lakota reservation in Sioux City.
It is from his real mother. Jesse’s curiosity is piqued, and he immediately travels to his birthplace to learn why she sent it. Unfortunately, by the time he arrives, his mother’s body is discovered in the smoldering wreckage of her home. She was shot before she was burned.
Jesse’s investigation into her death is not welcomed by the local captain of police and his assistant. He is almost beaten to death but is saved by his grandfather, a shaman, and a Lakota woman. The newly healed Jesse begins to explore his tribe’s customs. He then contacts his mother’s spirit and she leads him to the film’s conclusion.
Sioux City is a 1994 American mystery drama film directed by and starring Lou Diamond Phillips, Gary Farmer as Russell White, Tantoo Cardinal as Dawn Rainfeather, and future Touched by an Angel star John Dye as Colin Adams. Other starring are Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Melinda Dillon, Lise Cutter, Bill Allen, Gary Farmer, Ralph Waite and Tantoo Cardinal. It was shot in Santa Clarita, California.
Sioux City (1994)
Directed by: Lou Diamond Phillips
Starring: Lou Diamond Phillips, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Melinda Dillon, Lise Cutter, Bill Allen, John Dye, Gary Farmer, Ralph Waite, Tantoo Cardinal
Screenplay by: L. Virginia Browne
Production Design by: Rando Schmook
Cinematography by: James W. Wrenn
Film Editing by: Mark Fitzgerald
Costume Design by: Shanna Knecht
Set Decoration by: Dawn R. Ferry, Debra Senopole
Music by: Christopher Lindsay
Distributed by: RS Media
Release Date: September 16, 1994
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