Square Dance (film)

Square Dance (film)

Infobox Film
name = Square Dance


caption =
song producer = Daniel Petrie
producer = Daniel Petrie
Michael Nesmith
writer = Alan Hines
starring = Jason Robards
Jane Alexander
Winona Ryder
Rob Lowe
Deborah Richter
music = Bruce Broughton
cinematography = Jacek Laskus
editing =
distributor = Island Pictures
released = February 20, 1987
runtime = 112 min.
country = US
awards =
language = English
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
amg_id = 1:46320
imdb_id = 0094020

"Square Dance" is a 1987 drama film written by Alan Hines, who also wrote the novel of the same name.The film was directed by Daniel Petrie and released on February 20, 1987.

Plot summary

Winona Ryder stars as Gemma Dillard, a 13 year-old country girl who lives with her Grandpa Dillard (Jason Robards). At some point, Gemma is visited by her mother with an offer to come stay with her in the city. Her mother is now married and can provide for her. Gemma accepts and soon finds herself in a new environment. She becomes acquainted with and grows close to a man with an intellectual disability, twenty-one-year-old Rory Torrance (Rob Lowe), they play together, hang out together, and imagine that they're married. The rest of the film focuses in a series of bitter-sweet experiences that eventually return Gemma to the country. The film was not commercially successful, however Rob Lowe was nominated for a Golden Globe Award.

One of the members of the Bayou Band as seen in the film was a then-unknown Trace Adkins, who in 1996 would go on to have the first of more than 20 country hits.

External links

*imdb title|id=0094020|title=Square Dance
*amg movie|id=1:46320|title=Square Dance
*rotten-tomatoes|id=square_dance|title=Square Dance
*mojo title|id=squaredance|title=Square Dance


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