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Dances with Wolves (1990) -- Lt. John Dunbar, exiled to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Indians, making him an intolerable aberration in the military.
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Overview

User Rating:
7.9/10   65,286 votes
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Michael Blake (screenplay)
Michael Blake (novel)
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Release Date:
21 November 1990 (USA) more
Tagline:
Inside everyone is a frontier waiting to be discovered. more
Plot:
Lt. John Dunbar, exiled to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Indians, making him an intolerable aberration in the military. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
Won 7 Oscars. Another 30 wins & 20 nominations more
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(74 articles)
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Best Native American Film Ever Made more (282 total)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
181 min | USA:224 min (extended version) | USA:236 min (director's cut)
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2.20 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) | Dolby SR (35 mm prints)

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Trivia:
Approximately 25% of the dialog is not in English. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When the charging buffalo first turns and sees "Smiles a lot" it's left side has no arrows stuck in it. A moment later as it charges, there are several arrows sticking out of the animal. more
Quotes:
Stands With a Fist: [explaining how she got her name] I worked every day... very hard... there was a woman who didn't like me. She called me bad names... sometimes she beat me. One day she was calling me these bad names, her face in my face, and I hit her. I was not very big, but she fell down. She fell hard and didn't move. I stood over her with my fist and asked if any other woman wanted to call me bad names... No one bothered me after that day.
John Dunbar: [smiles] I wouldn't think so.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (1998) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
Fire Dance more

FAQ

When John Dunbar is sent to Fort Hays after his suicide attempt, what is the meaning of his senior officer saying to him "I have just pissed in my pants and nobody can do anything about it."
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60 out of 97 people found the following comment useful.
Best Native American Film Ever Made, 5 December 2003
10/10
Author: dana_jensen533 from Shoreline, WA

This film is certainly one of the finest films out of Hollywood in recent years. It accuratly shows how "The White People" ran roughshod over the native americans and eventually took everything they had (their land, buffalo, etc.). The end of the film is heartbreaking where it says on screen that the Indians and the Horse culture were "passed into history." I suggest every history teacher show this film in their classes so future generations can see what a proud race of people the native americans are, and what we did to them.

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