Dance Me Outside
“After the party's over, real life kicks into gear.”
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.
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Cast
25 people
Ryan Rajendra Black
Silas Crow
Known for
Wonderfalls
Adam Beach
Frank Fencepost
Known for
Cowboys & Aliens
Suicide Squad
Bruce McDonald
Brian Dennis
John Frizzell
Mirosław Baszak
Jennifer Podemski
Sadie Maracle
Known for
IT: Welcome to Derry
Take This Waltz
W.P. Kinsella
Sarah Miller Hayward
Lisa LaCroix
Illianna
Also in
Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest
Fargo
Kevin Hicks
Robert McVey
Known for
Cool as Ice
Borrowed Hearts
Don McKellar
Bruce McDonald Director · Don McKellar Writer John Frizzell Writer
Worldwide gross $305K · First release September 1, 1994 · Produced in Canada
Box office
Worldwide gross
$304,852
Production
Cineplex-Odeon Films
Production
Shadow Shows
Production
Yorktown Productions
Production
Odeon Film
Production
Canada
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
Canada · September 1, 1994
Premiere
Canada · March 10, 1995
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
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