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Elimination Dance (1998)
Director: Bruce McDonald
Cast: Don McKellar, Tracy Wright, Michael Turner, Maurice Oxford
Runtime9 min
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Ever more bizarre criteria are used to eliminate couples from a secret dance event.
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Elimination Dance (1998), directed by Bruce McDonald, is a quirky and unconventional film that has garnered a cult following among critics and audiences. The film presents an increasingly bizarre dance competition where couples are eliminated based on ever-changing and absurd criteria, leading to a unique and surreal viewing experience. While the film's reception has been divisive, it is often praised for its creativity and offbeat humor.
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Fans of quirky, offbeat comedies will find a lot to love in Elimination Dance, director Bruce McDonald's 1998 film that puts a surreal spin on the dance competition genre. The ever-escalating elimination criteria, from the mundane to the bizarre, create a series of hilarious and visually imaginative set pieces anchored by strong performances from leads Don McKellar and Tracy Wright.
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Elimination Dance is a 1998 Canadian short drama film. Directed by Bruce McDonald, Don McKellar and Michael Ondaatje based on Ondaatje's poem of the same name, the film stars McKellar and Tracy Wright as a couple in a jazz dance competition, in which various couples are eliminated as the announcer calls out various elimination criteria drawn from Ondaatje's poem.
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