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Released
1998 · FILM

Dancer, Texas Pop. 81

in the middle of nowhere they had everything

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Written by
Runtime
97 min
ComedyDramaFamily

Synopsis

Four guys, best friends, have grown up together in DANCER, TEXAS POP. 81, a tiny town in West Texas. Years ago, they made a solemn vow to leave town together as soon as they graduate. Now, it's that weekend and the time has come to "put up or shut up." The clock is ticking and as all 81 people in the town watch, comment, offer advice and place bets, these four very different boys with unique backgrounds struggle with the biggest decision of their lives... whether to stay or leave home.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Rob KobrinShot by Andrew DintenfassScored by Steve DorffDesigned by Dawn Snyder

Box Office

1998 · Box office

Grossed $566K worldwide

Worldwide gross

$566K

Worldwide gross$566K

Opening week (7-day): $116K

Peak 26 theaters

Also known as

  • Dancer, Texasde
  • Dancer, Texas población 81es
  • Dancer, Texas, le rêve de la villefr

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