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Silent Tongue (1994)
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1 February 1994 (USA) moreTagline:
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Phenomenal ghost story. Very theatrical in tone. moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Richard Harris | ... | Prescott Roe | |
| Sheila Tousey | ... | Awbonnie / Ghost | |
| Alan Bates | ... | Eamon McCree | |
| River Phoenix | ... | Talbot Roe | |
| Dermot Mulroney | ... | Reeves McCree | |
| Jeri Arredondo | ... | Velada McCree | |
| Tantoo Cardinal | ... | Silent Tongue | |
| Bill Irwin | ... | Comic | |
| David Shiner | ... | Straight Man | |
| Tommy Thompson | ... | Medicine Show Band Performer | |
| Jack Herrick | ... | Medicine Show Band Performer | |
| Bland Simpson | ... | Medicine Show Band Performer | |
| Clay Buckner | ... | Medicine Show Band Performer | |
| Chris Frank | ... | Medicine Show Band Performer | |
| Arturo Gil | ... | Little Person Acrobat #1 |
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The final film that features River Phoenix (he died one year earlier from heart problems due to drug abuse). moreQuotes:
Reeves McCree: It shames me to be the son of a pig.Eamon McCree: You'll grow out of it. Just thank your stars you weren't born a half-breed like your demon sisters.
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Sam Shepard, the writer/director of "Silent Tongue," is one of the big names in contemporary American theatre. So it comes as no surprise that his two feature films (also, "Far North") have a distinctly theatrical tone. General audiences may not have a taste for his style, but Shepard's films richly reward multiple viewings for the open-minded.
"Silent Tongue" is a ghost story which uncovers a disturbing sickness at the heart of the Old West. River Phoenix becomes mentally unhinged when his Native American bride dies in childbirth. This sends his father, Richard Harris, on a journey to try and find another woman for his son. Exhibiting tragically limited imagination, the father returns to the traveling circus where he traded horses for the first woman, and he attempt a second bargain for the woman's sister. In the end, the sister must confront the dead woman's ghost, and we learn the dark secret of their past.
Phoenix is eerily convincing as the mad Talbot Roe, and Richard Harris is uncharacteristic low-key as the world-weary Prescott Roe. Dermot Mulroney, unable to make his character's diction convincing, is perhaps the film's only casting error.