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from alcohol. Arlene demands that
Arnold stop drinking, but he cannot.
Instead, he leaves.
A decade later, Arlene and her son
Victor (Adam Beach), now a hand-
some and popular 22-year-old, receive
a phone call notifying them of
Arnold's death in Arizona. They can-
not afford to send Victor to retrieve
his father's remains, so the oddball
Thomas Builds-the-Fire (Evan Adams)
offers the money — with one condi-
tion: he gets to travel with Victor.
What ensues is a journey in fact
and fiction. Thomas' marvelous story-
telling abilities unnerve Victor enough
to think back to times with his father.
And as Victor lashes out at Thomas,
the awkward boy who unconsciously
adopted the Joseph family as his own,
learns what it is to be an Indian.
The screenplay for Smoke Signals
was adapted from best-selling author
Sherman Alexie's award-winning 1993
collection of short stories, The Lone
Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven.
Alexie is well-known for his
poignant, searing poetry and short sto-
ries recounting the life of American
Indians, and this film particularly
captures the audience with Thomas'
rich storytelling vocabulary Of
course, the film does poke at funny
foibles within the Indian communi-
ty as well.
Alexie's co-producer, Chris Eyre,
a New York University graduate
and winner of the Rockefeller
Foundation Intercultural Film Fel-
lowship, explains that "for Indians
especially, a sense of home is such a
strong thing, whether you have sta-
bility or dislocation."
Alexie gives a glimpse into the
Indian condition. "While Victor
goes about his search, all the while
in the background you can see
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where tribal people are at this
moment: Mostly we are poor;
mostly we are fragmented. The

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need for family and meaning in all
that occurs is strong."
While a much-published author,
Alexie embraces the forum of film.
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active and alive, closer to the Indian
oral tradition."
Smoke Signals debuted at the Sun-
dance Film Festival in January, where
it won the Dramatic Audience Award
and the Filmmakers Trophy. Eyre and
Alexie received the first
Sundance/NHK International Film-
makers Award for emerging filmmak-
ers.
The film is "groundbreaking
because of its portrayal of Indians,"
says Alexie, "who actually get to play
human beings with funny and com-
plex emotions. I think this will change
the way Indians are looked at in cine-
ma." Rated PG-13.
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