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Contemporary telling of the 1826 James Fenimore Cooper
novel filmed as a series of attacks, captures and rescues over mountain ridges,
white-water rapids, waterfalls and through woods.
SEX/NUDITY 2 - Some cleavage. Native American men are shown in their natural
garb of loin cloth type pants, exposing some side view behinds. A very passionate kiss
between two characters.
VIOLENCE/GORE 9 - Ultra brutal: Violence is a primary theme. Opening scene
shows a deer being tracked and killed, but reverentially. A regiment of English soldiers
is slaughtered by a Huron Indian war party, complete with bludgeonings, scalpings,
stabbings, throat slashings, and shooting. The colonial occupants of a cabin are lying
dead. Bodies are bloody and burned. One officer's heart is cut out of his chest and held
up for display. A soldier is burned at the stake; he is finally shot in the head to put
him out of his misery. A number of people end up falling off a cliff.
PROFANITY 2 - Several mild obscenities. [profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - War, colonization, freedom, the rule of law vs. survival.
MESSAGE - Love conquers all. He who lives by the tomahawk, often dies by the
tomahawk.
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