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38 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
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Shadow Dancing
"When a tragic past comes to haunt the future"
1988 1h 40m EN
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4.2
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★4.2TMDB · 5
HorrorThriller
Synopsis
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Jess, a struggling dancer, is trying out for a part in a musical about Medusa. As she practices, the director notices how much she resembles his former lover, a ballerina who died in a bizarre on-stage accident while performing the exact same dance that Jess is doing. As more unexplainable coincidences surround the production, someone or something must be behind them all. But who? Or what?
“When a tragic past comes to haunt the future”
Cast
Nadine Van der Velde
Jessica Lilliane
Christopher Plummer
Edmund Beaumont
James Kee
Paul
Gregory Osborne
Philip Crest
John Colicos
Anthony Podopolis
Charmion King
Grace Meyerhoff
Shirley Douglas
Nicole
Kay Tremblay
Sophie Beaumont
Credits
Behind the camera
- Director
- Lewis Furey
- Writers
- Christine Foster
- Languages
- English
- Countries
- Canada
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The take
Lewis Furey directs. Rene Ohashi behind the camera. Jay Gruska scores. Produced in Canada. Dialogue in English.
Trivia
Things worth knowing
- 138 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
- 2Directed by Lewis Furey, shot by Rene Ohashi. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
- 3Original score by Jay Gruska. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
- 4Nadine Van der Velde and Christopher Plummer and James Kee carry the top of the cast.
- 5Marketing tagline: "When a tragic past comes to haunt the future".
- 6IMDB entry: tt0096080 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
- 7Only 5 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
The technical file
- Cinematography
- Rene Ohashi
- Original score
- Jay Gruska
- Runtime
- 100 min · 1h 40m
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- EN
Also by
Lewis Furey
Key crew
- SongsMarc Jordan
- Costume DesignerMaya Mani
- SongsJoseph Williams
Release history · US
When it landed
- Theatrical1988-12-02
