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Dance Me Outside

Dance Me Outside

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Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 10, 1995

Runtime

1h 24m

Genres

Drama, Crime, Comedy

User Score

68%

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.