Slam Dance (1987) on Netflix
R19871h 39mCrimeMysteryThriller
C.C. Drood, a married cartoonist, has been seeing Yolanda Caldwell, a call girl. When she is found murdered, the police blame him, and a killer is sent after him.
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- Netflix1.7/5
- IMDb5.2/102,059 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes17%
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Plot summary
C.C. Drood earns his living as a cartoonist and is married to Helen. He has also been keeping company with Yolanda Caldwell, a call girl he met at a club whose patrons throw themselves at one another on the dance floor. Yolanda is found murdered, and Drood becomes caught in the covering up of a political sex scandal. Detectives hunt him for the killing. One of them, Gilbert, is corrupt and works to place the blame on Drood, while a colleague, Smiley, comes to his aid. Bobby Nye, once Yolanda's lover, pays a man named Buddy to kill Drood.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Slam Dance (1987)
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- Constant interference from the producers led director Wayne Wang to try to have his name taken off Slam Dance, which he made after Chan Is Missing and Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart.
- Slam Dance was Wayne Wang's first film in which none of the main characters are Chinese; he took the job to avoid being seen as a director mainly of stories about Chinese Americans.
