Knee Dancing

Jul 15, 1988

1h 37m

★ 2.0

Overview

Doreen Ross plays Laura Zuckerman a young housewife tortured by experiences of childhood sexual abuse. This is a poignant display of the human mind desperately grasping for normalcy while having been "trained" otherwise at an early age. While Laura's mother is in the hospital for a long stay her father terrorizes Laura. Sex then is the next step and before Laura's mother comes home her father makes her promise not to tell her mother what he has been doing to her. Laura's reality is now well tainted as she oscillates repeatedly between what is real versus what she thinks is real in the actions of both men and women towards her.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Ted V. Mikels

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Cast

Laura Zuckerman

Doreen Ross

David Ariniello

Gertrude Clement

Gary Faulkner

Tina Faulkner

Roxanne Holland

Terry Logan

Chiah Tuck

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