Silent Tongue

Mad with grief after the death of his Kiowa wife, Talbot awaits death under a tree with her body beside him. She begins to haunt him because he won't burn her. His father, who bought him the wife, thinks her sister might reason with him.

Silent Tongue is a 1995 drama horror movie directed by Sam Shepard, starring River Phoenix, Dermot Mulroney, Alan Bates. It holds an IMDb rating of 5.2/10 from 1,407 votes and runs 1h 42m.