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  • 2023
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 56 m
  • 2023
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 56 m
The Road Dance

Summary In a small, remote village in the Outer Scottish Hebrides, Kirsty (Hermione Corfield) yearns for adventure and another life across the ocean. Though she finds comfort in time spent with her mother and younger sister, she sees hope and a future with Murdo (Will Fletcher), an intelligent, curious poet. The two fall in love as World War I l...

Directed By: Richie Adams

Written By: John MacKay, Richie Adams

  • 2023
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 56 m
  • 2023
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 56 m

The Road Dance

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Summary In a small, remote village in the Outer Scottish Hebrides, Kirsty (Hermione Corfield) yearns for adventure and another life across the ocean. Though she finds comfort in time spent with her mother and younger sister, she sees hope and a future with Murdo (Will Fletcher), an intelligent, curious poet. The two fall in love as World War I l...

Directed By: Richie Adams

Written By: John MacKay, Richie Adams

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Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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14% Positive
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Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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86% Mixed
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Oct 12, 2023
The quiet pace of The Road Dance, along with the ebbs and flows of the events around the characters, give it an authenticity and space to feel the impact. You may be captivated just as the filmmaker and I were.
By Bradley Gibson FULL REVIEW
60
Oct 12, 2023
Although a little too performatively Scottish at times, this is a competently made weepie that should please fans of the book.
By Wendy Ide FULL REVIEW
60
Oct 12, 2023
Almost entirely set in the island community, The Road Dance delivers on its mission to entertain without defying any long-standing conventions. A pleasant slice of afternoon telly for the big screen.
By Donald Clarke FULL REVIEW
60
Oct 12, 2023
It’s sentimental, though the way Kirsty is helped by women boiling with fury at the injustice does feel modern.
By Cath Clarke FULL REVIEW
50
Oct 13, 2023
While the settings may indeed be beautiful, every frame here has been location-scouted and dressed to a fare-thee-well that sucks all the life out of every image—the viewer might also rest easy at the near-certain prospect that The Unfortunate Events will be conveyed as antiseptically and tastefully as possible.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
50
Oct 13, 2023
The film too often feels like the plodding presentation of a sad story. And it gets sadder still, though as the plot goes on the movie tends to skirt genuine awfulness, reaching instead for the inspiring flashback, the righteous moment of justice or the happy, improbable surprise.
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Shifting between stagy sincerity and startling realism (the labor scene is particularly colorful), The Road Dance is a vividly rendered, if ultimately schematic portrait of feminine resilience.
By Beatrice Loayza FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Sheridan Road Productions,, Uinta Productions, Wind Chill Media Group
Release Date Oct 13, 2023
Duration 1 h 56 m
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Awards

Edinburgh International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Manchester International Film Festival (MANIFF)
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Sedona International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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