The Sunchaser (1996)

Michael Cimino, the director of The Deer Hunter and the ill-fated Heaven's Gate, helmed this bizarre New Age action picture in 1996. Based on a screenplay by Charles Leavitt, the film stars Woody Harrelson as Dr. Michael Reynolds, a rich, young L.A. physician who worries more about promotions and buying a $2 million home for his family than about his patients. Reynolds is assigned a 16-year-old convicted murderer, Brandon Monroe (Jon Seda), as his new patient. Brandon is a half-Cherokee gang member who killed his own stepfather, has terminal cancer, resents his privileged doctors, and has beaten up several pediat...
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ricians who've tried to care for him. Brandon gets a gun while going to the bathroom at the hospital and kidnaps Reynolds, stealing a car. While constantly threatening his doctor's life, Brandon takes him on a trip to an Arizona Indian reservation with the aim of immersing himself in a magic lake which native tradition says has healing powers. Along the way, the pair meet up with motorcycle gang members, rattlesnakes, and several New Age philosophers. Eventually, the materialistic doctor and the young tough gain a grudging respect for each other's values, and Reynolds even steals money to buy Brandon medicine.
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Dokter Michael Reynolds is een gerenommeerd arts. Op zeker ogenblik moet hij Blue, een jonge misdadiger, onderzoeken. Hij stelt vast dat de crimineel niet lang meer te leven heeft. Bij zijn transfer naar een ander ziekenhuis overmeestert Blue de arts en ontvoert hem. Onder bedreiging van 'n wapen dwingt hij hem richting Colorado te rijden. Tijdens de bewogen reis door de woestijn leren de arts en de misdadiger elkaar beter kennen, maar de wederzijdse achterdocht blijft...

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