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MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 2002

"I also admired Chris Eyre's "Skins," a drama about murder, vigilantism, alcoholism and despair on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Eric Schweig stars as a police officer whose beloved brother is dying from alcoholism. Investigating a murder, he gets more involved than he should, in a film that combines high drama with droll comedy and has an unforced feel for daily life on the reservation.

"These people are simply not visible to mainstream American society," Eyre told me after the screening. . ."

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Waiting for greatness at a solid fest (The Chicago Sun-Times 1/17)
No place for political correctness in film (The Chicago Sun-Times 1/18)
A Friendlier Climate? (The Los Angeles Times 1/19)

Relevant Links:
The Sundance Institute - http://www.sundance.org/jsps/site.jsp?resource=pag_ex_home

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