Dances with Wolves (1990)

Dances with Wolves rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb8/10· 308K votes

Rotten Tomatoes87%

Metacritic72%

TMDb7.84/10· 5K votes

With 87% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 8/10 on IMDb and 72/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About Dances with Wolves

Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.

Cast of Dances with Wolves

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  Kevin Costner

  as Lieutenant Dunbar

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  Mary McDonnell

  as Stands With A Fist

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  Graham Greene

  as Kicking Bird

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  Rodney A. Grant

  as Wind In His Hair

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  Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman

  as Ten Bears

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  Tantoo Cardinal

  as Black Shawl

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  Robert Pastorelli

  as Timmons

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  Charles Rocket

  as Lieutenant Elgin

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  Maury Chaykin

  as Major Fambrough

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  Jimmy Herman

  as Stone Calf

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  Nathan Lee Chasing Horse

  as Smiles A Lot

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  Michael Spears

  as Otter

Dances with Wolves facts

Budget

$22M

Box office

$424.2M

Our take on Dances with Wolves

Kevin Costner's 1990 western follows John Dunbar, a wounded Civil War soldier who survives a suicide attempt to become an unlikely hero and requests a lonely posting on the Western frontier. There, far from the world he knew, he forges a fragile friendship with a Sioux tribe. Directed by Costner himself, this sweeping adventure drama trades the genre's usual gunfights for patience, landscape and a slow shift in loyalty. It rewards viewers who like their epics contemplative and character-driven, with long stretches of frontier quiet rather than incident. If you enjoy immersive period pieces about crossing cultural lines and questioning where you belong, it's an absorbing place to settle in.