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Crooked Arrows
Crooked Arrows is a 2012 American sports drama film directed by Steve Rash and written by Brad Riddell. The story is centered on a Native American (Haudenosaunee) lacrosse team making its way through a prep school league tournament in Upstate New York.
Plot.
A mixed-blood Native American, Joe Logan aka "Logan the Legend" is eager to modernize his reservation's casino by expanding on the land of his ancestors, but first he must prove himself to his father, the traditionalist Tribal Chairman.
"Crooked Arrows" gets points for its glimpses of Native American culture and history — the film’s backers include the Onondaga Nation — but too many of these scenes are disappointingly static. And the games themselves give little sense of the flow or exquisite precision of lacrosse. Splitting the difference between heritage film and sports flick, "Crooked Arrows" gets neither right, whiffing at an open net."
Reception Box office.
In its opening weekend, the film grossed $257,364 in 55 theaters, ranking at #24 nationally