4/5 Solid adventure flick
  by One-Line Film Reviews (Easton, MD)
The Bottom Line:

A well-made film about an arrogant bush pilot and a sick Inuit woman stranded in the Canadian wilderness, The Snow Walker doesn't do anything notably or exceptionally well but it moves quickly and never insults the audience's intelligence; if you're the type of person--as I am--who likes stories about survival, you could do a lot worse than The Snow Walker.

3/4

5/5 A wonderful film
  by Alexander C. Woodbury
I have seen this film over ten times. I rank the film as one of the greatest ever made. Even though I know the outcome, I'm still moved everytime. The character development is real. The young girl is someone anyone would love. Charlie becomes a better person because of her.

5/5 Two views of abandonment
  by P. Brewbaker
We recognize him as the world-weary WWII pilot. He's tasted death over Germany, the steaks of Montreal, the numerous girls of the Yukon. Outwardly boisterous, inwardly wounded, he flies the NW territories to pass the time and pay the bills, and if he 'sees' the local Eskimos at all, its as a profit-making opportunity. Since he is spiritually stranded, once he is stranded for real, would he think twice of abandoning her to 'find help'? In a part of his mind, we are all abandoned, or, as another character relates, we are 'all alone in this world'.

But what motivates her? Time and time again, this young Inuit, gravely stricken with tuberculosis, appears by his side to rescue him from his own folly. Why? This morose invalid doesn't start the film in a promising way, yet we see a woman transformed by the opportunity to care. This woman has trained her whole life to be someone's wife, her hero was her mother. Cruelly, TB has apparently robbed her of her mission. Yet, the plane-wreck that strands them represents a chance to put into practice her short lifetime of training. Will he let her? In the 'real world', his friends search for him. But, like him, they are hobbled by a modern attitude of 'we're all alone in this world' that repeatedly makes their efforts fall short of rescue. Will her more traditional attitude make the difference?

The good woman fishes, she catches small game, and she sews, and sews, and sews. Her heroism is completely traditional, it's poignancy informed by her illness. Her reverence for the dead is also fully formed and uncompromising. If it came to it, she would give her lifes-blood for her loved ones. And she would never abandon another person, unless...

In the frozen Arctic wilderness, abandonment lies just outside your door. As her mother taught her, if she should ever go there, it would not be for herself.

This is a great Farley Mowat story that translates perfectly to the film. See it.

5/5 incredible movie
  by informednow (cleveland, oh)
This is an extremely well-acted, tear jerker of a movie! An arrogant pilot and Eskimo girl are stranded in the tundra when their plane malfunctions and crashes. The girl is sick with TB and was enroute to a hospital when the crash occurred. The native Inuit woman grew up in this climate and knows how to survive. She cares for and teaches the pilot the necessary skills and learns to laugh. As he grows in skills, she grows weaker physically until he has to care for her. He also grows as a person and they love between the two (nonsexual) becomes more and more evident. Two completely different people from completely different backgrounds have learned to pool their talents to survive and become emotionally attached in the process. Great movie!

5/5 native of planet earth
  by white native woman (planet earth)
This is an awesome movie! rented it and again and again ,, should have bought it ! It made me cry, made me laugh and made me linger on this worlds petifull history in living in harmony with each other >> all of us: " Humans"!~ We've got a long way to go before we become as unjudgemental and accepting as animals already are !