Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The road dance / Unita Productions presents ; a Sheridan Road production in association with Argus Entertainment Capital ; produced by Jim Kreutzer, Maryilene Blondell, Steven Shapiro ; written and directed for the screen by Richie Adams.

Publisher, Date:

Chicago, IL : Music Box Films, [2023]

Description:

1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

2.39:1

wide screen

video file

DVD video

Summary:

In a small, remote village in the Outer Scottish Hebrides, Kirsty 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, an intelligent, curious poet. The two fall in love as World War I looms, and Murdo is soon conscripted to join the other men of the village to fight. As a gesture of farewell, the village hosts a road dance, a celebration attended by every resident, but this sense of community is soon shattered by an unspeakable incident that changes Kirsty's life forever. Sensitively adapted from John MacKay's 2002 novel, this sweeping tale of adversity and resilience captures the attitudes of the time while offering a moving melodrama for audiences of any period.

Subjects:

Young women -- Drama.

Poets -- Drama.

World War, 1914-1918 -- Drama.

Rape victims -- Drama.

Prisoners of war -- Drama.

Western Isles (Scotland) -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Drama.

Hebrides (Scotland) -- Drama.

Genre:

Historical films.

Feature films.

Fiction films.