| A Cool, Dry Place | |
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| Directed by | John N. Smith |
| Produced by | Katie Jacobs Gail Mutrux |
| Written by | Matthew McDuffe Based on a novel by Michael Grant Jaffe |
| Starring | Vince Vaughn Monica Potter Joey Lauren Adams Bobby Moat |
| Music by | Curt Sobel |
| Distributed by | Twentieth-Century Fox |
| Release date(s) | January 29, 1999 |
| Running time | 97 minutes |
| Country | US |
| Language | English |
A Cool, Dry Place is a 1999 movie adapted by Matthew McDuffie from the novel Dance Real Slow by Michael Grant Jaffe. It was directed by John N. Smith. The movie stars Vince Vaughn, Monica Potter, Joey Lauren Adams and Bobby Moat.
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A single father balances his work as an attorney with the care of his five year old son and his work as a high school basketball coach in rural Kansas, where he moved after his wife abandoned him in Chicago. Just as he starts to develop a new relationship with a veterinarian's assistant, his ex-wife suddenly reappears and wants to re-assert herself in her husband and son's life. On top of the romantic conflict, he is also suddenly presented with the opportunity of a lifetime to join a major firm in Dallas.
A large part of the film was not shot in Kansas, but rather in a little town in Ontario called Lindsay (now part of the city of Kawartha Lakes) as well as the town of Brooklin.
A rejected soundtrack was composed by Mike Mills of R.E.M.