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DANCER, TEXAS POP. 81
Directed by Tim McCanlies; with Brekin Meyer, Peter Facinelli, Eddie
Mills, Ethan Randall, Ashley Johnson, Patricia Wettig, and Eddie Jones.
1998
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high school buddies with a childhood pact to move to L.A. after graduation
explore individual ties to their hometown and to each other before
they are scheduled to leave. There's Keller, the would-be city slicker
and main champion of the "solemn vow"; Terrell Lee, reluctantly
in line to run the family oil business; John, son of a rancher; and
Squirrel, a white trash misfit. Together these boys make up 4/5ths of
the graduating class, and their departure is met with disapproval --
after all, the population count on the Dancer town sign will have to
be repainted. Just like the landscape, the film is a little flat, but
it does provide a look at contemporary life out among the sprawling
blue sky and the distant mesas. Filmed in Ft. Davis and Alpine, Dancer,
Texas shows us a modern-day oil business and a working ranch, the secrets
of a dry county, tells us what one might study at Sul Ross University,
and confirms the fact that not all folks are looking for things they
don't have. Dancer, Texas might be a better film if something actually
happened, but then again, it is about life in West Texas.
our
high school buddies with a childhood pact to move to L.A. after graduation
explore individual ties to their hometown and to each other before
they are scheduled to leave. There's Keller, the would-be city slicker
and main champion of the "solemn vow"; Terrell Lee, reluctantly
in line to run the family oil business; John, son of a rancher; and
Squirrel, a white trash misfit. Together these boys make up 4/5ths of
the graduating class, and their departure is met with disapproval --
after all, the population count on the Dancer town sign will have to
be repainted. Just like the landscape, the film is a little flat, but
it does provide a look at contemporary life out among the sprawling
blue sky and the distant mesas. Filmed in Ft. Davis and Alpine, Dancer,
Texas shows us a modern-day oil business and a working ranch, the secrets
of a dry county, tells us what one might study at Sul Ross University,
and confirms the fact that not all folks are looking for things they
don't have. Dancer, Texas might be a better film if something actually
happened, but then again, it is about life in West Texas. 
