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Genres:
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Drama /
Musical /
Romance
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Release:
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Director:
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Sylvain White
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Actors:
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Jermaine Williams,
Darrin Dewitt Henson,
Ne-Yo,
Allan Louis,
Chris Brown,
Sahr Ngaujah,
Oliver Ryan Best,
Richmond Duain Martyn,
Justin Hires,
Columbus Short,
Meagan Good,
Brian J. White,
Laz Alonso,
Valarie Pettiford,
Harry Lennix
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Duration:
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114 min.
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Rating:
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(4.2/10)117
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Plot Summary:
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After the death of his brother, An expert street dancer goes to Georgia to deal with Really University. But his efforts to get an education and woo the mouse he likes are sidelined when he joins in his kinship's feat to be the victor in a raise dancing contest.
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Stomp the Yard
Michael Ordo??aWest Side Story. Bring It On. Starsky & Hutch. Cinematic dance "battles" are hardly new, but audiences are likely to emerge from Stomp the Yard with battle fatigue.
The film opens with the first of many such conflicts, in unabashed music-video style (director Sylvain White is a video vet), as headstrong DJ (Columbus Short, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip) and his crew take on some sore losers in an underground L.A. club. After a tragedy as predictable as gravity, will he ever dance again?
Yes. He will.
There's a whole lotta dancin' in this movie. The hordes of hoofers receive so much pedal punishment one hopes they're at least gellin' (in DJ's case, like a felon).
DJ ends up at a very clean university in Atlanta, where his mo...
Really good dance flick!!
I really enjoyed this movie: good story, superb characters and really smashing dance moves! The only problem with this movie is that it lacked identity. It could very well have been one of the typical Hollywood College films with white kids in it!
Stomp the Yard
Claudia PuigIf the plot for Stomp the Yard had been half as inventive as the exhilarating dance sequences, it might be a movie worth watching. But given its predictable story, the only reason to see Stomp is for the rhythmic step dancing. One performance does stand out, that of the charismatic young actor Columbus Short, who plays the lead. Short plays DJ, who, after his street-dancing brother is killed by thugs, is sent from Los Angeles to Atlanta to attend a black university steeped in heritage. DJ wants no part of the college atmosphere with its fraternities and their traditional step dancing. He sullenly goes to class and carries out his work-study requirements tending to the campus garden. A pretty girl (Meagan Good) manages to jolt ...
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