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A Cool, Dry Place is a american film of genre Drama directed by John N. Smith released in USA on 29 january 1999 with Vince Vaughn
A Cool, Dry Place (1998)
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Add to a movie listA Cool, Dry Place is a 1998 drama movie adapted by Matthew McDuffie from the 1996 novel Dance Real Slow by Michael Grant Jaffe. It was directed by John N. Smith. The movie stars Vince Vaughn, Monica Potter, Joey Lauren Adams and Bobby Moat.
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A single father balances his work as an attorney with the care of his five-year-old son and his work as a high school basketball coach in rural Kansas, where he moved after his wife abandoned him in Chicago. Just as he starts to develop a new relationship with a veterinarian's assistant, his wife suddenly reappears and wants to re-assert herself in her husband and son's life. On top of the romantic conflict, he is also suddenly presented with the opportunity of a lifetime to join a major firm in Dallas. In the end, the wife runs off with the boy to Cincinnati, the father turns down the job, and the wife gives the boy back to him.Actors
Vince Vaughn
(Russell Durrell)
Devon Sawa
(Noah Ward)
Monica Potter
(Kate Durrell)
Joey Lauren Adams
(Beth Ward)
Dean McDermott
(Sheriff Pritchard)
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