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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
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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
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