Dance Me Outside

Dance Me Outside

84 mins | Drama, Crime, Comedy | March 10, 1995

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.

Dance Me Outside

84 mins | Drama, Crime, Comedy | March 10, 1995

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.
IMDb rating 7.1
Producers Yorktown Productions, Cineplex-Odeon Films, Shadow Shows
Original title Dance Me Outside
Directors Bruce McDonald
Writers John Frizzell, Bruce McDonald, W.P. Kinsella, Don McKellar

Cast

Ryan Rajendra Black

as Silas Crow

Adam Beach

as Frank Fencepost

Jennifer Podemski

as Sadie Maracle

Lisa LaCroix

as Illianna

Kevin Hicks

as Robert McVey

Rose Marie Trudeau

as Ma Crow

Gloria May Eshkibok

as Mad Etta

Selim Running Bear Sandoval

as Robert Coyote

Sandrine Holt

as Poppy

Tamara Podemski

as Little Margaret

Herbie Barnes

as Joseph

Hugh Dillon

as Clarence Gaskill

Vince Manitowabi

as Hobart Thunder

Michael Greyeyes

as Gooch