To Dance With Olivia

To Dance With Olivia

91 mins | Drama, Romance | March 9, 1997

A lawyer trying to cope with his son's accidental death takes on a case where a farmer is charged with booby trapping a watermelon patch with a shotgun which went off and injured a young boy. But in choosing to defend the farmer, he puts himself at odds with the boy's father, an old friend who is politically influential. In dealing with this case, he is forced to confront his own son's death and his wife's slippage into being a virtual recluse.

To Dance With Olivia

91 mins | Drama, Romance | March 9, 1997

To Dance With Olivia
A lawyer trying to cope with his son's accidental death takes on a case where a farmer is charged with booby trapping a watermelon patch with a shotgun which went off and injured a young boy. But in choosing to defend the farmer, he puts himself at odds with the boy's father, an old friend who is politically influential. In dealing with this case, he is forced to confront his own son's death and his wife's slippage into being a virtual recluse.
IMDb rating 6.4
Producers Finnegan/Pinchuk Productions, Sonar Entertainment, Logo Entertainment, Carnegie Hill Entertainment
Original title To Dance With Olivia
Directors Michele Ziegler, Rick Clark, Christine Moore, Bruce Pittman
Writers H. Haden Yelin

Cast

Louis Gossett Jr.

as Daniel Stewart

Kathleen York

as Aurora Watling

William Schallert

as Judge Shelton

Scott Lawrence

as Ranse Shipley

Kathryne Dora Brown

as Camile Stewart

Joe Don Baker

as Horace

Frankie Muniz

as Oscar

Pamela Garmon

as Mrs. Shelton

Philip Loch

as Barney

Elizabeth Omilami

as Eva Lynn

Rasheed Wilson

as Danny

Chandler Parker

as Joe Shipley

Sondra Berry

as Lois Finch

Ron Dortch

as Al Finch

Barry Bell

as Sheriff