Dance Me Outside
Explores the sensitive, and tense, relationship between life on an First Nations reservation and life in the outside world. When Native Canadian Silas Crow is forced to write a personal essay in order to get a much-desired job, he tells the story of the rape and murder of an Indian girl by a drunken thug. When the killer received a lenient two-year sentence for manslaughter, the First Nations community felt shock and anger—and tried desperately to deal with the after-effects of this lack of justice.
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Dance Me Outside
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Status
Released
Release Date
Mar 10, 1995
Runtime
1h 24m
Genres
Drama, Crime, Comedy
User Score
69%
Original Title
Dance Me Outside
Production Companies
Cineplex-Odeon Films, Shadow Shows, Yorktown Productions, Odeon Film
Director
Bruce McDonald
Revenue
$304,852
Description
Explores the sensitive, and tense, relationship between life on an First Nations reservation and life in the outside world. When Native Canadian Silas Crow is forced to write a personal essay in order to get a much-desired job, he tells the story of the rape and murder of an Indian girl by a drunken thug. When the killer received a lenient two-year sentence for manslaughter, the First Nations community felt shock and anger—and tried desperately to deal with the after-effects of this lack of justice.