Santa Fe (1997)

Paul Thomas is an ex-cop who happened to be the sole survivor of a mass cult suicide in Wyoming. He returns to his home town of Santa Fe in order to put his life back together. However, ... See full summary »

Director:

Andrew Shea

Writers:

Mark Medoff, Andrew Shea

Stars:

Tina Majorino, Gary Cole, Sheila Kelley

1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Tina Majorino	...	Crystal Thomas
Gary Cole	...	Paul Thomas
Sheila Kelley	...	Leah Thomas
Jere Burns	...	Dr. Dan Yates
Richard Schiff	...	Alex
Lois Geary	...	Mrs. Cowling
Angelina Torres	...	Alma Vigil (as Angelina Calderon Torres)
Pamela Reed	...	Nancy Vigil
Adan Sanchez	...	Richard Vigil
Michael Harris	...	Larry Culpepper
Lolita Davidovich	...	Eleanor Braddock
Jim Holmes	...	Officer Jimmy Crouse
Mark Medoff	...	Mayor Robert Strauss
Tony Plana	...	Chief Gomez
Phyllis Frelich	...	Dr. Joyce Ginsberg

Storyline

Paul Thomas is an ex-cop who happened to be the sole survivor of a mass cult suicide in Wyoming. He returns to his home town of Santa Fe in order to put his life back together. However, soon he realizes that his ex-wife is sucked into new-age philosophies. Trying to save his daughter from the cults, he finds self-help guru Eleanor who happens to be a very attractive woman.

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Plot Keywords:

cult | new age | wyoming | suicide | ex cop | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for language, a sex scene and a violent sequence

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

25 June 1997 (Hungary)

Also Known As:

La secta del mal

Filming Locations:

Jemez Mountains, New Mexico, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Doradel Pictures, Nu Image Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

97 min

Sound Mix:

Ultra Stereo

Color:

Color

User Reviews

Wondering What It Means To Me.

I read this as a story that tries to demonstrate a simple model of mental illness. To me it speaks in sign language, but it is a straight forward language.

Another story that used such language was maybe Donnie Darko, but a lot of the ingredients there, if one was to find something helpful to such as Donnie, were upside down, near impossible for a tied up individual to be able find as helpful. The commentary on the D C version of Donnie is interesting but to me it is fantasy fiction. True, Donnie and his father are much more heavily chained than the people in Santa Fe. That could be why the sign language there feels hidden.

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An important hidden ingredient with this and such as Donnie Darko 2001+ and The Ballad Of Jack And Rose 2004 could be error correction pressures generating increased error. That defining these stories.

Here, if I read between the lines, most of this story is due to that. His attempts to regain his path, all the flow and detail of that, including the marriage of the Mayor. I overdo it.

In this particular story the error correction finally leads towards positive results. True, there is near disaster all along the way. With Donnie and his dad and Jack and Rose they need help to - firmer ground?

• via a better path. They have an urgent need for firmer ground. Big

babies can have a problem.

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I understand, a guess, that the UK is trying to solve the problem of big babies. A national cleansing. Since around 2003 the streets seem a lot cleaner as far as obvious human debris is concerned. I see that from the debris side so I do not notice all that much, I notice a lot of pressure for which there is 'no hiding place' and a lot of it seems official or accepted by officialdom. I no longer can read the local newspaper very often, but the issue of 12-12-06 mentions a gang of children damaging buses. I assume that big babies will get the blame for that.

I assume this relates to beliefs that encourage governments to create the underclasses and their lifetimes in hell. The Tit For Tat concept from the artificial intelligence worlds, explored as the heart of Mean Girls 200-4. Heathers? Hellmouth? Law and popular culture that encourage anarchism in fools, is that mental health? I understand England to believe so, yet tourists here will likely not experience this aspect to be much different than elsewhere?

The England that I know is Cammie's Ballad and Daveigh's Donnie, yet some will experience it as Tina M's Santa Fe or Lindsay's Life Size or better.