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Sweet Hearts Dance is a american film of genre Drama directed by Robert Greenwald released in USA on 23 september 1988 with Don Johnson
Sweet Hearts Dance (1988)
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Add to a movie listSweet Hearts Dance is a 1988 American comedy drama film directed by Robert Greenwald. The screenplay by Ernest Thompson centers on two small town couples, one married for several years and the other at the beginning of their relationship.
The film was shot on location in Hyde Park, Vermont at Brendan Mullins' house. Mayor of Burlington, future Vermont State Senator and 2016 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders makes a cameo appearance in the film.
It's Halloween, and New England contractor Wiley Boon, married to his high school sweetheart Sandra and the father of three children, feels smothered after fifteen years of the same routine and is facing a midlife crisis. His best friend, local school board president Sam Manners, is on the verge of starting a relationship with Adie Nims, a recent transplant from Florida and the new teacher at the grade school. During Thanksgiving dinner, Wiley and Sandra have a minor disagreement that prompts him to leave his family and move into a mobile home to sort through his feelings of emotional unrest. Using subsequent holidays as a background, the film focuses on both their efforts to recapture the magic of their early years together.
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It's Halloween, and New England contractor Wiley Boon, married to his high school sweetheart Sandra and the father of three children, feels smothered after fifteen years of the same routine and is facing a midlife crisis. His best friend, local school board president Sam Manners, is on the verge of starting a relationship with Adie Nims, a recent transplant from Florida and the new teacher at the grade school. During Thanksgiving dinner, Wiley and Sandra have a minor disagreement that prompts him to leave his family and move into a mobile home to sort through his feelings of emotional unrest. Using subsequent holidays as a background, the film focuses on both their efforts to recapture the magic of their early years together.Actors
Don Johnson
(Wiley Boon)
Susan Sarandon
(Sandra "Sandy" Boon)
Jeff Daniels
(Sam Manners)
Elizabeth Perkins
(Adie Nims)
Justin Henry
(Kyle Boon)
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