Sweet Hearts Dance (1988)

Wiley and Sandra have been happily married for years and are now in the process of breaking up. Sam, his childhood friend, is just beginning to fall in love with a new teacher at the high ... See full summary »

Director:

Robert Greenwald

Writer:

Ernest Thompson

Stars:

Don Johnson, Susan Sarandon, Jeff Daniels

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Don Johnson	...	Wiley Boon
Susan Sarandon	...	Sandra Boon
Jeff Daniels	...	Sam Manners
Elizabeth Perkins	...	Adie Nims
Kate Reid	...	Pearne Manners
Justin Henry	...	Kyle Boon
Holly Marie Combs	...	Debs Boon
Heather Coleman	...	BJ Boon
Matthew Wohl	...	Dick Merezini
Steven Stabler	...	Wayne Rodemeyer
Laurie Corbin	...	Claire Norton
Lanie Conklin	...	Darielle Johnson
Jock MacDonald	...	Peter Barrett
Frits Momsen	...	Joe Canecki
Stephen Robert Moorhead	...	Bobby Canecki

Storyline

Wiley and Sandra have been happily married for years and are now in the process of breaking up. Sam, his childhood friend, is just beginning to fall in love with a new teacher at the high school. As they try to adjust to these conflicting emotions they find themselves having to evaluate their own relationship as well.

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Plot Keywords:

human relationship

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Taglines:

Some people fall in love, some people step in it.

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Genres:

Drama

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Certificate:

R

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

23 September 1988 (USA)

Also Known As:

Amerikai négyes

Filming Locations:

Florida, USA

Box Office

Gross:

$3,790,493 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Brightstar Films, Chestnut Hill Productions, ML Delphi Premier Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

101 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Goofs

I am a member of Hanaford's Volunteers Fyfe and Drum Corps of Underhill, VT. Our Corps (and I) are depicted in this film with pompom girls. Our Corps represents the 18th Century, the Green Mountain Boys. There were no pom pom girls back then, nor do we march with any now! We still laugh over this!

User Reviews

Predictable copy of a movie already directed

Sweet Hearts Dance has a good cast of actors. Don Johnson was in a very popular period, Susan Sarandon doesn't need an introduction, and Jeff Daniels came from the success of "Purple rose of Cairo" and "Something wild". There were all the elements to be a good movie: an interesting subject (family divorce), the actors, a good screenwriter Ernest Thompson, who came from the copy of Academy Awarded winner "On the golden pond", but the movie failed the waits. The screenplay is very repetitive: it seems to be taken from a reduction of "Terms of endearment" (even Elizabeth Perkins phisically looks like Debra Winger) and from a series of similar movies. Don Johnson is very good in the part of the rebellious husband with a bad character but we don't understand where his intolerance comes. The movie doesn't explain this and expires in the usual stereotype of the couple in crisis after the first 15 years of marriage. The direction is so absent that often it doesn't understand if the actors improvise in order to give speed to the scenes or it was a decision of the screenwriter to think many slow and predictable scenes. However the story presents even very funny moments that are the only reason in order to see this movie.