Rotten
Notwithstanding a knockabout performance by Jane Alexander as a Fort Worth floozy, Square Dance is do-si-dull.
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer
Square Dance
Sometimes leaving is the first step to finding home.
1987 · 1h 52m · PG-13
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Daniel Petrie
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Square Dance
Overview
An awkward 13-year-old leaves her cranky grandfather in rural Texas, to live with her mother in Fort Worth.
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31%
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Rotten
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.
Johanna Steinmetz, Chicago Tribune
Fresh
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.
Michael Wilmington, Los Angeles Times
Rotten
It's so cotton-pickin' cliched.
Derek Adams, Time Out
Rotten
Nothing that happens comes as much of a surprise.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
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