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Genres:
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Drama /
Romance
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Director:
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Robert Iscove
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Actors:
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Gregory Harrison,
Kisha Sierra,
Tom Malloy,
Purva Bedi,
Elise Eberle,
David House,
Alexandra Andrews,
Chris Ranney,
Nicola Royston,
Shane Crown,
Jennifer Dunstan,
Pamela Finley,
Jordan Frisbee,
Joe Manuel Gallegos Jr.,
Antony Hall,
Gloria Martin,
David F. Maxwell,
Paul McGowen,
Tracy Melhorn,
Joey Montoya,
Kenny Resch,
Tom Romero,
Benji Schwimmer,
Kieran Sequoia,
Maria Sigmon,
Dan Strakal,
Cynthia Straus,
Brandi Tobias,
Z. Ray Wakeman,
Amy Smart,
Billy Zane,
Caroline Rhea,
Leila Arcieri,
Rachel Dratch,
Betty White,
Frank Bond,
Ross Kelly,
Maulik Pancholy,
Arron Shiver,
Catherine Mary Stewart
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Rating:
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(5.6/10)104
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Plot Summary:
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2002: Jake Mitchell is the defending Earth West Seashore Swing Champion. He's got everything succeeding on the side of him: looks, personality, and configuration. He's at the top of his daring when he and his confederate Corinne are crowned the unexpected winners at the World Swing Dance Championships. As the crowd cheers and the celebration begins, Jake appears uneasy. Did he in the end deserve to win? The music blasts and the bass is thumping, and Jake hears nil of it. He feels it. Jake is hook deaf, due to an heed infection when he was a teenager. He learned how to promenade away sensitive... the vibrations of the music. Now he feels something else: that perhaps the judges gave him the win to of communion. Nearby Prime: Jessica Donovan's animation is monotonous. When she was younger, she was a dancer who had dreams of Broadway. Now she's an English schoolmaster for disinterested, northern year mean adherents kids, and she's with one foot in the grave to simulate loose. Her fiancee Kent is a work-a-holic who cares more about making money than making Jessica light-hearted. Jake's moved on with his life and he's now a hoof it teacher who travels around the power doing motivational speaking to students around how his disability did not hold him back. It's at a circle assembly where Jake and Jessica first meet. He's up on stage telling kids that you beget to confidence in in yourself. The spoiled fragrant kids prove no interest at first, but Jake's charm and sense of humor gets them to laugh. Then his former helpmate Corinne joins him onstage and they dance. The crowd goes nuts! Jake meets Jessica and there's an instant ally; there's but anybody hornet's nest. Jake's quiet in guy with Corinne and perhaps every will be. And Corinne knows exactly how to get under Jake's husk. Notwithstanding that she has a fiancee, she drives Jake nuts with her coquettish ways. Jessica initially asks Jake to train both her and her fiancee in West Coast Swing in the course of their wedding, but Jake and Jessica are drawn closer when Kent's non-stop undertaking prevents him from going to the rate. Jessica decides to take lessons from Jake... as the case may be they can fence at the World Championships of Swing in the Pro-Am unit? And they get better and better. They decide, at a dance division, to go suited for it all. Thoughts the Pro-Am; they to try repayment for the designation that Jake felt he never deserved. But immediately the champions are all 18 year olds who can withstand gravity, and Jake's in his early thirties. To borrow matters worse, Corinne gets command that her age partner has a new partner, and suddenly, she's interested in Jake again. Jake and Jessica obligation endeavour to slip away from all obstacles, romantic or on the other hand, to stay focused on the goal... winning the World Epithet and winning each other. Last wishes as they fork out in to the turn the heat on or arrive out like champs?
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Love N' Dancing
Peter DebrugeBland as its title, Love N' Dancing extends the cliches of the dance-and-romance genre -- so overplayed that it's targeted for a Wayans brothers spoof later this month -- to the world of West Coast Swing. Writer-producer-star Tom Malloy plays a motivational speaker (and hard-of-hearing hoofer) who rekindles schoolteacher Amy Smart's girlhood passion for dance, while she offers the inspiration he needs to overcome his disability. Malloy's chemistry-killing additions to the proven formula push the experience toward mawkishness when the otherwise by-the-numbers pic means to be inspirational, limiting interest in this low-budget indie to the apologetically sincere or ironically inclined.
Bringing no personal style to the assignment, Robert Iscove's ambiv...
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