The Indian Runner

Based on the Bruce Springsteen song “Highway Patrolman,” this film is Sean Penn’s debut as a writer-director and is set in Ohio during the 1960s and focuses on brothers Joe and Frank Roberts (David Morse and Viggo Mortenson). Joe, the older of the two, is a policeman and family man; Frank is a Vietnam veteran with a violent streak that threatens the well-being of everyone around him., Sean Penn wrote and directed this tale of two very different brothers and their troubled lives in the late 1960s in rural Nebraska., Atmospheric drama which follows the fortunes of two very different brothers in 1968 Nebraska. Joe, a failed farmer turned policeman, tries to cope with the return of his disturbed ex-con brother Frank from the Vietnam War. But Frank’s refusal to mend his wild ways threatens to separate the brothers for good. First-time director Sean Penn also scripted, basing the story on Bruce Springsteen’s song ‘Highway Patrolman’., Sean Penn’s debut as a writer/director stars Viggo Mortenson as a returning Vietnam vet with problems and David Morse as his brother trying to re-establish the close bond they once had. Against type, Charles Bronson plays their father who can’t understand why his sons aren’t as they were.