Last Manhunt, The

[Opens Nov. 18 in theaters and available on various digital and VOD platforms.] When a Chemehuevi shaman and tribal leader (Zahn McClarnon) is accidentally killed in Joshua Tree, Calif., in 1909 trying to stop his beautiful, rebellious daughter (Mainei Kinimaka) from running away with her love-struck boyfriend (Martin Sensmeier) in Christian Camargo's compelling, factually inspired, stirring, heartbreaking, well-acted, Romeo and Juliet-esque, star-dotted (Tantoo Cardinal, Lily Gladstone, Brandon Oakes, and Amy Seimetz), 102-minute Western film highlighted by gorgeous cinematography, the by-the-book sheriff (Christian Camargo) forms a posse with a bounty hunter (Jason Momoa) and two indigenous trackers (Raoul Max Trujillo and Wade Williams) to begin searching for the couple in the sun-drenched Mohave desert during an epic 600-mile manhunt.
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