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Directed by | |||
| Tim McCanlies | |||
Writing credits(WGA) | ||
| Tim McCanlies | (written by) | |
Produced by | |||
| Jacqueline Anderson | .... | associate producer | |
| Tina Brawner | .... | co-producer | |
| Michael Burns | .... | executive producer | |
| Leanna Creel | .... | executive producer | |
| Chase Foster | .... | producer | |
| David Prybil | .... | associate producer | |
| Jeff Rice | .... | co-producer | |
| Dana Shaffer | .... | producer | |
| Alan Stepp | .... | associate producer | |
| Peter White | .... | producer | |
Original Music by | |||
| Steve Dorff | |||
Cinematography by | |||
| Andrew Dintenfass | |||
Film Editing by | |||
| Rob Kobrin | |||
Casting by | |||
| Laurel Smith | |||
| Michael Testa | |||
Production Design by | |||
| Dawn Snyder | |||
Art Direction by | |||
| Jeff Adams | |||
| Jeff B. Adams Jr. | |||
Set Decoration by | |||
| Wanda 'Beau' Peterson | (as Beau P. Petersen) | ||
Costume Design by | |||
| Susan Matheson | |||
Makeup Department | |||
| Dara Jaramillo | .... | makeup department head | |
Production Management | |||
| Ted Gidlow | .... | executive in charge of production | |
| Tim Swan | .... | unit manager | |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director | |||
| Pamela Altieri-Paterra | .... | second second assistant director | |
| Melissa V. Barnes | .... | second assistant director | |
| Jim LaClair | .... | assistant director | |
Art Department | |||
| Ramona Fabregas | .... | assistant property master | |
| Virle S. Reid | .... | props | |
| Byron Scott Thomas | .... | property master | |
Sound Department | |||
| Willy Allen | .... | supervising sound editor | |
| Wayne Bell | .... | production sound mixer | |
| Wayne Bell | .... | sound effects | |
| Trip Brock | .... | foley editor | |
| Pamela Kahn | .... | foley artist | |
| Stacey Michaels | .... | adr mixer | |
| Greg Orloff | .... | sound re-recording mixer | |
| Will Riley | .... | sound effects editor | |
| Brooke Satrazemis | .... | cable person | |
| Kurt Thum | .... | sound editor | |
| Lisa Varetakis | .... | assistant sound editor | |
| Gregory H. Watkins | .... | sound re-recording mixer | |
Costume and Wardrobe Department | |||
| Jeannine Bourdaghs | .... | set costumer | |
| Jeila Gueramian | .... | costume supervisor | |
| Beth Rogers | .... | set costumer | |
Editorial Department | |||
| Todd Busch | .... | first assistant editor | |
| Daniel Fort | .... | assistant editor: avid | |
| Asim Matin | .... | assistant editor | |
Music Department | |||
| Bob Beecher | .... | assistant music editor | |
| Larry Herbstritt | .... | orchestrator | |
| Chris Ledesma | .... | music editor | |
Transportation Department | |||
| Jon Bergholz | .... | transportation coordinator | |
| Justin Nance | .... | driver | |
Other crew | |||
| Nellie Adami | .... | assistant production coordinator | |
| Craig Carter | .... | boss wrangler | |
| Ted Gidlow | .... | production executive | |
| Haley McLane | .... | script supervisor | |
| Timothy R. Price | .... | key set production assistant | |
| Pat Ridley | .... | stand-in: Wayne Tippet and Eddy Jones | |
| Michael Saleman | .... | legal services | |
| Tim Swan | .... | location manager | |
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In 1998, Tim McCanlies had a crazy idea. He made a movie about a tiny town in the middle of nowhere, in which no one gets killed, nothing gets blown up, no one has sex, and there aren't any aliens from outer space. Thank goodness he saw his crazy idea through; the result is a fabulous movie that I saw in the theater in 1998, and I am not sure I have seen a better movie since then.
The setting of the movie is the fictitious town of Dancer, located in Southwest Texas, where the counties are bigger than the states in the northeast and the people are outnumbered by rattlesnakes. The movie begins on Friday, when four boys are graduating from high school. We learn that, while they were in junior high school, they made a "solemn vow" that as soon as they graduated, they were going to get on the next bus to California to make their mark on the world. Easy to say when you're in junior high, and graduation is years away. But now it's here, and the bus is pulling out on Monday morning. The question is whether any of the boys will follow through.
That's pretty much the plot. What's so special? Simple: the relationships between the boys, between each of them and their family members, and between the folks in the town. This movie, like all great movies, is about the characters' reactions to the circumstances they are in. The characters are real, fleshed out not in bold strokes but in nuances, and their actions, not always predictable, are always believable. Most of us have faced the decision whether to leave the town that we grew up in. It is fascinating to watch these teenagers begin to grow into men -- at an accelerated pace, because of their childhood pledge.
Someday, when you are at the video store and you don't know what to get, you will see this on the shelf. Get it. You will be very, very happy.