Dance Me Outside (1994)

After the party's over, real life kicks into gear.

84 min★ 7.1 · 1,540 votes

• Comedy
• Drama

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.

Release date

March 10, 1995

Country of origin

Canada

Box office

$304,852