Coyote Waits (2003) (TV)

User Rating:

6.9/10   

Director:

Jan Egleson

Writers:

Lloyd 'Lucky' Gold (teleplay)
Tony Hillerman (novel)

Release Date:

16 November 2003 (USA)

Genre:

Mystery

Tagline:

Two Navajo cops race to unravel a dangerous web of myth, murder, and greed.

Plot:

Two tribal cops uncover a plot involving a lost fortune, an historical artifact and a mythical Coyote on a Navajo reservation. |

Plot Keywords:

Second Part | Part Of Trilogy | Sequel | Native American | Murder

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Adam Beach	...	Jim Chee
Candice Costello	...	Jen
Jimmy Herman	...	Ashie Pinto
Gary Kanin	...	Judge
Wes Studi	...	Joe Leaphorn
Sheila Tousey	...	Emma Leaphorn
Mark Kilburn	...	Doctor
Alex Rice	...	Janet Pete
Graham Greene	...	Slick Nakai
Jill Scott Momaday	...	Mary Keeyani
Keith Carradine	...	John McGinnis
Sheri Foster	...	Blue Lady
Jack Burning	...	Hosteen Nakai
Long Nguyen	...	Huan Ji
Paul Guilfoyle	...	Jay Kennedy, FBI

Runtime:

USA:107 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Navajo | Vietnamese

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

Company:

Granada Television

Goofs:

Continuity: When Jim Chee is at his relative's house, the windmill changes directions, in totally opposite directions, as the wind direction changes between shots.

Movie Connections:

References Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

Painting The Rocks

Jim Chee, Joe Leaphorn, and Emma Leaphorn return for Coyote Waits, the second installation based on Tony Hillerman's best selling series.

Ashie Pinto, an elderly, poor, drunken, tribesman is arrested by Chee for the shooting death of a Navajo police officer. Chee finds Pinto leaving the scene of the crime with a gun, and it's proved the gun was used to murder the officer.

Chee hesitated to respond to the fellow Navajo officer's distress call, despite his initial feeling that something bad had happened. His extreme remorse over the officer's death sets the tone for Coyote Waits.

Chee begins to suffer through personal and professional struggles. He doubts his intuition and instinct, and he doubts his abilities as a police officer and a healer.

Joe Leaphorn, on vacation from his duties to care for his rehabilitating wife Emma, is asked by her to further investigate the shooting death, in behalf of Pinto's family, whom she's related to.

Chee also decides to investigate the events behind the shooting.

What follows is a chase for a coyote running through the sands of time.

This episode is filled with dazzling, rustic-bronze coloured landscapes, colossal copper-gilded rock formations, and sweeping, vast, turquoise skies.

The musical score is a combination of traditional Native American sounds with contemporary jazz. The soothing, clear, quiet musical lines intermingle smoothly with whispered reverberations and soft, staccato rhythms.