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Dance 'Til Dawn (TV 1988)It's prom night and the kids of Hoover High will be having a night they will never forget. Popular girl Shelley ditches her prom and ends up spending the night with unpopular Dan; Popular ... See full summary » Director:Paul Schneider |
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Title: Dance 'Til Dawn (TV 1988)
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Jack Lefcourt
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Fred
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It's prom night and the kids of Hoover High will be having a night they will never forget. Popular girl Shelley ditches her prom and ends up spending the night with unpopular Dan; Popular guy Kevin goes out with nerdy Angela because he heard she was easy; Patrice continues to blame her boyfriend Roger for everything that doesn't go the way she wants it to. The adults also have there problems to contend with: Nancy and Larry must find out a way to patch up their marriage or get a divorce; Jack spends the night tracking down his son Dan to find out why he didn't go to the prom; and overprotective Ed and Ruth keep tabs on their daughter Angela throughout the night. Written by Pat McCurry <ccgrad97@aol.com>
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23 October 1988 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Dancing 'Til Dawn See more »Company Credits
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Dan: That's right, Dad. I'm an acorn.
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Alyssa Milano and Chris Young dated shortly while filming, according to Milano. She said that they later drifted apart. See more »Quotes
Dr. Lefcourt: You are Jack Lefcourt's boy, and the acorn doesn't fall far from the tree!Dan: That's right, Dad. I'm an acorn.
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When I first saw this one late night on a local station, I was already much too old for its target audience. Yet I couldn't help but be drawn into this world. Yes, the kids were somewhat stereotyped and unrealistic. But my own prom was never this much fun. Not to mention a cast that was a Who's Who of late '80s sitcoms from all four networks of the time.
Cut to today, fourteen years after the movie premiered. Hens Tooth Video's new DVD is spartan, with no special features whatsoever, but with a nicely sharp picture. And I'm pulled right back into it. Something has changed now. I'm even older, but it still speaks to me. Then it hits me. I'm not only wishing I was young again, I'm also thinking like the parents in this film, whose age I have, alas, reached. I sympathize with them and all their troubles. They no longer seem simply the addled adults. In the final scene at Huds, we see how the experiences of their own youth shaped and misshaped their adult lives. And in truth, not many of us weren't badly messed up as kids. The movie feels more balanced, now that I've seen it from both sides.
So don't just dismiss this as a lightweight teen flick. It has something for everyone - the young, the old and the young at heart.