Square Dance (Home is Where the Heart Is) (1987)
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31% of critics liked it
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48% of users liked it
(807 ratings)
Gemma (Winona Ryder) is a young teen raised by her crusty grandfather Dillard (Jason Robards) in this drama of a young woman's coming of age. When she goes to the city to spend the summer with her estranged mother Juanella (Jane Alexander), she falls for Rory (Rob Lowe), a rural rube of… More Gemma (Winona Ryder) is a young teen raised by her crusty grandfather Dillard (Jason Robards) in this drama of a young woman's coming of age. When she goes to the city to spend the summer with her estranged mother Juanella (Jane Alexander), she falls for Rory (Rob Lowe), a rural rube of less-than-average intelligence, but her only true friend in a hypocritical town. Gemma's promiscuous mother delights in reminding the emotional Gemma that her father could be any one of several men, and Gemma's frustration leads to an inevitable confrontation between mother and daughter. Deborah Richter plays the town floozie Gwen. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi
- Directed By
- Daniel Petrie Sr
- Genres
- Drama
PG-13,
- In Theaters
- Feb 20, 1987 Wide
Critic Reviews
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Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer
Notwithstanding a knockabout performance by Jane Alexander as a Fort Worth floozy, Square Dance is do-si-dull.
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Johanna Steinmetz, Chicago Tribune
There are so many small, well-crafted touches about the movie it`s painful to report that the whole is not quite the sum of its parts.
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Michael Wilmington, Los Angeles Times
story can move you even if it's predictable, and that's what Square Dance accomplishes. It makes contact with its people, its land; it makes us feel for them; it hews out a slice of the earth, our earth, and makes it real.
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Derek Adams, Time Out
It's so cotton-pickin' clichéd.
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Vincent Canby, New York Times
Nothing that happens comes as much of a surprise.
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Cast
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Jason Robards
as Dillard
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Jane Alexander
as Juanelle
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Winona Ryder
as Gemma Dillard
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Rob Lowe
as Rory
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Deborah Richter
as Gwen
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Guich Koock
as Frank
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Elbert Lewis
as Beecham
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Irma P. Hall
as Preacher Dixon
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Harlan Jordan
as Ray Ferrys
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Brad Leland
as Drunk Cowboy
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Dennis Letts
as Bob Hadley
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Annabelle Weenick
as Mrs. Weeks
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Stephanie Binford
as School Girl
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Barbara Britt
as Miss Lawson
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Jim Bynum
as Jack Springer
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Newt Davis
as Bubba Springer
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Gwen Little
as Doreen Hadley
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Barbara McCauley
as School Girl
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J. David Moeller
as Dub Mosley
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Linda Nye
as Eunice Tanner
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Dee Pyland
as May Tompkins
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Charlotte Stanton
as Aggie
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Dixie Taylor
as Dolores
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Liz Williams
as Miss Harley
