A Thief of Time

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A Thief of Time


Category: Mystery
All Genres: Mystery
Release Year: 2004
Country: USA
Runtime: 94
Rating: 6.7 (0)
Languages: English, Esperanto
Director: Chris Eyre
Sound: Stereo
Taglines:

  • An ice-swept escape route in front of them. A cold-blooded killer behind them. The only way out is up.


    • Writing by: Alice Arlen - writer
    Tony Hillerman - novel

    Produced by: Craig McNeil - producer
    Robert Redford - executive producer

    Cast: Gary Farmer - Captain Largo
    Adam Beach - Jim Chee
    Ernest Tsosie III - Dispatcher Clem Allison
    Wes Studi - Joe Leaphorn
    Sheila Tousey - Emma Leaphorn
    Kelly Byars - Delbert Tsosie
    Alex Rice - Janet Pete
    Beth Grant - Ranger Mildred Luna
    Natowa Garcia - Larry
    Kenneth White Eagle Wings - Pete Etcitty
    Dawn Lewis - Maxie Davis

    Music: BC Smith
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    Plot Outline: Officers Leaphorn and Chee search for a missing anthropologist suspected of stealing artifacts from a burial site.
    Plot: An anthropologist, Ellie Friedman-Bernal (Rosalia de Aragon), is suspected of selling ancient Anasazi pottery on the black market. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn (Wes Studi) and Officer Jim Chee (Adam Beach) are sent to investigate. Ellies hyper-competitive colleagues, Maxie Davis (Dawn Lewis) and Randy Elliott (Lee Tergesen), claim to be clueless about her whereabouts. Hailing from a hard-scrabble farm, Maxie is an improbable success at the academic game, while East-Coast patrician Randy is more at home as a scholar. Ellies cryptic notes lead Leaphorn and Chee to preacher/fencer Slick Nakai (Graham Greene), and his musician/accomplice Pete Etcitty (Kenneth White Eagle Wings), who later turns up dead--along with another pot poacher. Then there are the rich, unsavory collectors Richard DuMont (James Pollard) and local rancher Harrison Houk (Peter Fonda), who was the last person to see Ellie alive. If the mystery is to be solved, some nettlesome questions need to be answered: Why did Ellie trade a saddle for a kayak just before she disappeared? Why does the crippled Houk himself own a kayak? And whats that hunched-over form in the shadows that looks strangely like Kokopelli, the flute-playing Navajo spirit?

    Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
    End credits: "No live girls were hurt or injured during the making of this motion picture."

    Goofs: We know about 2 goofs. Here comes one of them:
    Audio/visual unsynchronized: At various times throughout the film (notably in the pub and during the ceilidh band competition) when we see Anne (Andrea Corr) playing fiddle, her bow is moving but her fingers are not.

    Trivia: There are 1 entries in the trivia list - like these:

    • James Mason had predicted to his co-star Kay Lenz that the movie would be a flop at the box office. He said, "You mark my words. All films that are predominantly in thick snow are a flop at the box office. Somehow they make an audience feel uncomfortably cold and damp." It turned out he was right and the film flopped worldwide.



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