Feature film — 1992
The Dance Goes On (1992)
Crazy Los Angeles. Work is an hour away, down a crammed six-lane freeway. It is always sunny, but the sun looks like a sickly blemish on the smog. Everyone's out to look beautiful and make money. And a kid named Rick fits right in. The Gaspé coast. Work is five minutes away on a tractor seat. When the sun shines, the ocean is set ablaze, and the scent of pine fills the crisp country air. People here just try to make ends meet, but they know how to laugh from the gut and to show each other they care. This is were Rick's father James grew up, but Rick has never been here. When Rick learns that he has inherited the ancestral farm, and that his father wants him to go to Gaspé to bury the uncle who left Rick this legacy, an extraordinary odyssey begins. Father and son start out as different from each other as Gaspé and Los Angeles, but in the process, Rick discovers manhood and James discovers fatherhood.
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Director: Paul Almond
On screen
Cast & crew
Matt Almond
Rick Smith

Geneviève Bujold
Rick's Mother

Curzon Dobell
James' Father
Deborah Freeman
Loanne
Elton Hayes
Mayor Elton
Bryan Hennessey
Cousin Cecil

Leslie Hope
Rick's Girl in LA

James Keach
James Smith

Cary Lawrence
Mary Mackenzie

Louise Marleau
Viola Mackenzie

François Tassé
Fred Mackenzie