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Information
- Year
- 1994
- Runtime
- 84 min.
- Director
- Bruce McDonald
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- Rating *
- 7.0
- Votes *
- 814
- Checks
- 46
- Favs
- 2
- Dislikes
- 0
- Favs/checks
- 4.3% (1:23)
- Favs/dislikes
- 2:0
Top comments
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Siskoid
Everybody knows Canadian writer W.P. Kinsella's most famous book-to-screen translation, Field of Dreams, but in addition to writing a lot of baseball stories, Kinsella also penned a large number of stories about Natives. Dance Me Outside adapts that story - which I read in college - and adds other threats from the short story collection (more would be added in The Rez, a TV series that spun out of the film). It's really all about the friction between Natives and Whites, in particular after a Native girl is murdered by a white boy, who doesn't exactly pay for his crime. A revenge story is brewing, but director Bruce MacDonald (here between Highway 61 and Hard Core Logo) expands the tale to make us know the characters better, as a community and as individuals, before the short story's revenge story can take place. The subplot about the lead's brother-in-law being white adds to the texture of this world even it connects very little to the main thrust of the story. But I forgive it because I'm just enjoying getting to know the cast. 3 weeks 4 days ago