Indian Horse (2017) on Netflix
Saul Indian Horse, a First Nations boy, is sent to a residential school where Ojibwe is forbidden. A priest opens a hockey rink, and Saul keeps the ice in the early morning.
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- Netflix3.8/5
- IMDb7.3/102,888 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes80%
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Plot summary
Saul Indian Horse, six years old, retreats with his family by canoe deep into the wild after a residential school leaves his older brother gravely ill. His parents leave him with his grandmother in the woods when they take the boy away to be blessed by a priest, and they do not return. Cold weather pushes Saul and his grandmother toward their ancestral lands, and when she dies the authorities take him to a residential school. There the top official, Father Quinney, and a nun forbid the boys to speak Ojibwe and rename Lonnie, who knows no English, Aaron. A priest, Father Gaston Leboutilier, persuades Father Quinney to allow ice hockey, and the underage Saul takes the early rink job, learning the game from televised matches.
Cast
- Will Strongheartas Virgil
- Melanie McLarenas Ruth
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Indian Horse (2017)
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- Filming of Indian Horse was originally planned as a television film for Super Channel, but it came out in theaters instead after Super Channel filed for bankruptcy in Canada in 2016.
- Casting Will Strongheart as Virgil caused minor controversy because the actor had a history of criminal domestic violence. Strongheart blamed drugs and alcohol, said he regrets his actions and has been sober since 2010.
- Indian Horse earned only $1.69 million on an $8 million budget and was a box-office bomb, yet it was still the highest-grossing English Canadian film of 2018.
