Clearcut
1991 · Movie · R · 98 min · ★ 6.9 · 78% critics
After a court loss over logging on Indigenous land, an idealistic lawyer is pulled into a brutal act of revenge by a furious activist. Their journey through the forest becomes a tense moral ordeal about justice, anger, and the human cost of environmental destruction.
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Details
- Years
- 1991
- Release date
- 1991-09-10
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 78/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.9/10 (34 votes)
About
You may like this if you want a grim, thought-provoking thriller that mixes social conflict with wilderness dread; Not for you if graphic cruelty, bleak intensity, or morally messy stories are dealbreakers.
Pros: tense wilderness journey; provocative themes; strong performances | Cons: harsh violence; emotionally draining; can feel ambiguous
Themes
- canada
- based on novel or book
- kidnapping
- indigenous
- native american
- revenge
- ojibwe indians
- torture
- split personality
- environmental destruction
- spiritual journey
- logging
- +3 more
Cast & crew
Ron Lea
as Peter Maguire
Graham Greene
as Arthur
Michael Hogan
as Bud Rickets
Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman
as Wilf Redwing
- TS
Tia Smith
as Polly
Rebecca Jenkins
as Female Reporter
Tom Jackson
as Tom Starblanket
Raoul Max Trujillo
as Eugene
Michael Millar
as News Cameraman #1
- KH
Kim Hansen
as News Cameraman #2
Directed by Ryszard Bugajski