Wind River (2017)
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Wind River is a 2017 American neo-Western murder mystery written and directed by Taylor Sheridan. Jeremy Renner stars as Cory Lambert, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service tracker on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming, who discovers the frozen body of a young Native American woman in the snow, miles from the nearest shelter.
Jane Banner, a young, inexperienced FBI agent played by Elizabeth Olsen, is sent to investigate but is overwhelmed by the harsh terrain, sub-zero temperatures, and jurisdictional complications of crimes on tribal land. Taylor Sheridan, completing his frontier trilogy after Sicario and Hell or High Water, delivered his most personal and politically charged film, using the murder mystery to illuminate the epidemic of violence against Native American women — a crisis the film explicitly addresses in its closing text, noting that missing persons statistics for Native women are not even tracked by the federal government. Jeremy Renner's Lambert, a man whose own daughter died under similar circumstances, brought quiet devastation to every scene.
Wind River earned $45 million worldwide on a $11 million budget.
