A spiffy valentine to small-town America.
Dancer, Texas (1998)
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Reviews Counted:14
Fresh:11
Rotten:3
Average Rating:6.5/10
Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Four graduating high school seniors in a tiny Texas town (pop. 81) make decisions about their futures.
Starring: Breckin Meyer, Peter Facinelli, Ethan Embry, Eddie Mills
Starring: Breckin Meyer, Peter Facinelli, Ethan Embry, Eddie Mills
Director: Tim McCanlies
Director: Tim McCanlies
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Reviews for Dancer, Texas
Tim McCanlies' charming feature directorial debut evokes the spirit of Capra's Depression comedies and Thornton Wilder's Our Town, without the nostalgia or sentimentality of those works.
The characters and their emotions are painted with a big, sloppy brush. Texas-sized.
I don't care if it's a weekend-long slice of life in an incredibly scenic hick town with no major plot line; in fact, that's what I liked most about it.
By no means an earth-shattering, important film, but it is quiet and entertaining.
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