Center Stage (Special Edition) DVD (Region 99)

7.6	Listal rating

Manufacturer : Sony Pictures
Release date : 24 October 2000
Number of discs : 1
EAN : 9780767853651
UPC : 043396052901

Chick Flick (4), Dance (4), Drama (2), Teen (1), School (1), Ballet (1), Peter Gallagher (1), Mine (1), Spindle 1 (1), Disc 23 (1), Dance Movie (1), VHS (1)

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Product DescriptionThe hopes and dreams of a supremely gifted group of young ballet students will ride on the evaluations of the american ballet company. What emerges is the euphoria and disappointment of taking center stage. Special features: subtitles in english and french two deleted scenes talent files and much more. Studio: Sony Pi Product Description
The hopes and dreams of a supremely gifted group of young ballet students will ride on the evaluations of the american ballet company. What emerges is the euphoria and disappointment of taking center stage. Special features: subtitles in english and french two deleted scenes talent files and much more. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 12/21/2004 Starring: Peter Gallagher Ethan Stiefel Run time: 116 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Nicholas Hytner

The primary appeal of dance movies is the dancing, with some added emphasis on the romance the art expresses. Center Stage wins on these counts, despite its reveling in overly familiar characters and formula plotting. Or maybe this reveling is responsible for what goofy fun this film is. The arduous task of becoming a professional ballet dancer is incarnated by many good-looking teens, all stock dance-film characters affectionately portrayed mostly by newcomers. But center stage holds Jody Sawyer (Amanda Schull), who may never be a great ballerina, but she's certainly one sexy jazz dancer. Then there's the arrogant genius (Ethan Stiefel), the dictatorial impresario (Peter Gallagher), the demanding instructor, the bulimic, the stage mother, etc. As we follow these characters, the message develops that one should let go and do what feels good. Jody may not be ballet material, but she scorches the stage when she's uninhibited. And that's really the fun of this movie, which is never seriously interested in ballet to begin with. One ludicrous scene depicts one of the dancers quitting because she realizes she never wanted to be a dancer to begin with but was pushed into it by her overbearing mother. She stands up to mom in the lobby of the auditorium where she's supposed to be performing, the music of her piece providing a syrupy backdrop to her little drama. When she's finished talking, she walks off to the audience's unwitting applause. The scene is so ham-handed you can't help but laugh at its audacity, if that's what it is. The rest of the film is not so overdone, but it's all fun. --Jim Gay

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