Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School Movie Review 2006

When he was only 8 years old, Steve (Goodman) promised his sweetheart Lisa that in forty years they would meet again at their dance school's class reunion. Now here we are, forty years later, trying to believe that this is all going down and that Steve is still passionately fixated on this historic moment. Not buying it. Everything goes wrong and Steve wonders if he'll ever get to see his long-lost love again. Silly side-tracking story that takes itself too seriously, gushing its own bittersweet sentiment all over the place. Somehow snagged an incredible cast. Based on the director's own short film made 15 years earlier.

Distribution

Sony Pictures Home Video, Sony Pictures Plz., 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232, Phone: (310)244-7306, Fax: (310)280-2485, URL: http://www.spe.sony.com, Remarks: Formerly Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment

Running time 103 minutes.
Originally from United States.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Romantic Drama, Dance Fever, Widows & Widowers, Flashback

Screenplay

Randall Miller, Jody Savin

Cast

Robert Carlyle, Marisa Tomei, Mary Steenburgen, John Goodman, Donnie Wahlberg, Sonia Braga, Sean Astin

Cinematography

Jonathan Sela

Director

Randall Miller

Music

Mark Adler

Other

Kelly Oxford, Randall Miller, Kathryn Morrison, Dawn Snyder

Producer

Jody Savin, Randall Miller, Morris Ruskin, Eileen Craft, Shoreline Entertainment, Unclaimed Freight