Four Sheets to the Wind

Four Sheets to the Wind is a 2007 independent drama film written and directed by Sterlin Harjo. It was Harjo's first feature film, and won several awards at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and American Indian Film Festival. Plot The film tells the story of Cufe, a young Seminole/Creek man who travels from his small Oklahoma home town to Tulsa to visit his sister, Miri, after the suicide and funeral of their father. While Miri struggles with her life in the city, Cufe becomes friendly, and then romantically involved, with Miri's neighbor, Francie, and he begins to perceive that his life has more possibilities than he had realized. Cast Cody Lightning as Cufe Smallhill Tamara Podemski as Miri Smallhill Laura Bailey as Francie Jeri Arredondo as Cora Smallhill Jon Proudstar as Jim Mike Randleman as Sonny Richard Ray Whitman as Frankie Smallhill Production The script was developed with the support of the Sundance Institute and was filmed in Holdenville, Oklahoma (Harjo's hometown) and in Tulsa. Harjo has commented that one of his purposes in writing the script was to react against expectations and stereotypes, for example by depicting Cufe "drinking a beer" while not making alcoholism a central issue, and showing him becoming involved with Francie without making the movie into "an issue-driven interracial relationship story".