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This movie seemed to start very slowly; but it is a study in character development. As a native of Texarkana, Texas, and as a former inhabitant of two small towns in Pennsylvania, I found the characters and the roles they played in Dancer highly realistic, along with the negative and positive attitudes that the inhabitants of Dancer, Texas, had about their little town. The movie has a lot of humor, when it shows grown men at the high school graduation hardly saying a word to each other; and yet it was a complete conversation, after a fashion.

I would not call this a great movie, but a good one. It reminds me of the small-town joys and pains one sees in "Baby Blue Marine" and "Hoosiers."