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Imprint
USA 2007
produced by Chris Eyre, Carolyn Linn, Michael Linn for Linn Productions
directed by Michael Linn
starring Tonantzin Carmelo, Carla-Rae holland, Michael Spears, Cory Brusseau, Charlie White Buffalo, Russell Chewey, Dave Bald Eagle, Tokala Clifford, Joseph Medicine Blanket, Emmanuel Black Bear, Tim Black Bear, Brandon McBride, Juan Mesteth, Paul Weiler, Mark Barnes, Pony Boy, Jennifer Dowling, Gary Garnette, Beau Little Sky, Scott Means, Alec Morgan, Niels Jeppesen, Shad Olson, Shahiyela Pourier-Eyre, Robert Old Horse
screenplay by Keith Davenport, Michael Linn, music by Michael Linn, visual effects by Eric Linn
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Shayla (Tonantzin Carmelo), a Native American who has severed her roots
to become a public prosecutor (who even takes on and wins a case
against a member [Joseph Medicine Blanket] of her tribe), has
come back to her family's home for her father's (Charlie White Buffalo)
birthday. Soon she realizes her parents' house is haunted though, and she
suspects it to be the spirit of her brother Nathaniel (Tokala Clifford),
who has vanished without a trace quite a while back, and the more Shayla
investigates his disappearance, the more she begins to suspects her father
has actually killed him for taking drugs. Thing is, she can't get a
confession out of her father because he's suffering from dememtia ... and
eventually he even dies, with Shayla no closer to the truth than she ever
was. Then though, Shayla finds out that Nathaniel is not dead after
all, and that the Native American she had prosecuted in court was
convicted upon false evidence, evidence planted by her own senator-hopeful
boyfriend Jon (Cory Brusseau). In the big finale, when Jon goes after
Shayla to keep her from reporting him to the authorities, she has to
realize that the ghosts haunting her parents' house did not come from the
past but from the future, and only by trying to make sense of everything these
apparitions were saying she is able to save her own life while Jon gets
his just desserts. Of course, it's nice to see an American
movie with Native American lead characters for a change, and in a story,
too, that does not just focus on the plight of America's native population
but is rooted in genre cinema. That all said, Imprint is
unfortunately still far from being a perfect film, its plot, taking the
Native Americans out of the equation, is just a tad too clichéd, with the
baddie of the piece being easily identifiable early on, the directorial
effort hardly ever rising above made-for-television level, and the
camerawork remaining remarkably flat given the beautiful landscapes the film
is set in. Still, the film is not a total loss, merely your average horror
thriller ...
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