Wind River (film)

Wind River
Two faces. A figure walking in the snow
Theatrical release poster
Directed byTaylor Sheridan
Written byTaylor Sheridan
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyBen Richardson
Edited byGary D. Roach
Music by
Production
companies
Distributed byThe Weinstein Company[a] (United States)
STXinternational (United Kingdom)[4][5]
Metropolitan Filmexport (France)[5]
Release dates
  • January 21, 2017 (2017-01-21) (Sundance)
  • August 4, 2017 (2017-08-04) (United States)
  • August 30, 2017 (2017-08-30) (France)
  • September 8, 2017 (2017-09-08) (United Kingdom)
Running time
107 minutes[4]
Countries
  • France[1]
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
Budget$11 million[5]
Box office$45 million[2]

Wind River is a 2017 neo-Western crime film written and directed by Taylor Sheridan. It is the third film by Sheridan on the modern American West. The film stars Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen as a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service tracker and an FBI agent, respectively, who try to solve a murder on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming. Gil Birmingham, Jon Bernthal, and Graham Greene also star.

Sheridan has said that he wrote the film to raise awareness of the issue of the high number of Indigenous women who are raped and murdered, both on and off reservations.

Wind River premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and was released in the United States on August 4, 2017. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and was a box office success, grossing $45 million against an $11 million budget. It was theatrically released by The Weinstein Company (TWC), but in October 2017, following the reporting of numerous sexual abuse allegations against Harvey Weinstein, the film's distribution rights for home media were acquired by Lionsgate.

  1. ^ a b c "Wind River (2016)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on January 7, 2018. Retrieved January 19, 2018.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "Wind River (2017)". The Numbers. Nash Information Services. Archived from the original on April 28, 2017. Retrieved December 8, 2017.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference WeinsteinGone was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ a b "WIND RIVER (15)". British Board of Film Classification. August 29, 2017. Archived from the original on August 4, 2017. Retrieved July 23, 2018.
  5. ^ a b c "Wind River". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Archived from the original on March 20, 2017. Retrieved August 19, 2017.


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