Plot
A romantic comedy where a bored, overworked Estate Lawyer, upon first sight of a beautiful instructor, signs up for ballroom dancing lessons.
Release Year: 2004
Rating: 6.0/10 (19,695 voted)
Critic's Score: 47/100
Director:
Peter Chelsom
Stars: Richard Gere, Jennifer Lopez, Susan Sarandon
Storyline John Clark is a man with a wonderful job, a charming wife and a loving family, who nevertheless feels that something is missing as he makes his way every day through the city. Each evening on his commute home, John sees a beautiful woman, staring with a lost expression through the window of a dance studio. Haunted by her gaze, John impulsively jumps off the train one night, and signs up for dance lessons, hoping to meet her. At first, it seems like a mistake. His teacher turns out to be not Paulina, but the older Miss Mitzi, and John proves just as clumsy as his equally clueless classmates on the dance-floor. Even worse, when he does meet Paulina, she icily tells John she hopes he has come to the studio to seriously study dance and not to look for a date. But, as his lessons continue, John falls in love with dancing. Keeping his new obsession from his family and co-workers, John feverishly trains for Chicago's biggest dance competition...
Writers: Masayuki Suo, Audrey Wells
Cast: Richard Gere
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John Clark
Jennifer Lopez
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Paulina
Susan Sarandon
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Beverly Clark
Lisa Ann Walter
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Bobbie
Stanley Tucci
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Link
Anita Gillette
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Miss Mitzi
Bobby Cannavale
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Chic
Omar Benson Miller
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Vern
(as Omar Miller)
Tamara Hope
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Jenna Clark
Stark Sands
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Evan Clark
Richard Jenkins
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Devine
Nick Cannon
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Scott
Sarah Lafleur
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Carolyn
Onalee Ames
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Diane
Diana Salvatore
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Tina
Taglines:
A new comedy about following your own lead.
Opening Weekend: $11,783,467
(USA)
(17 October 2004)
(1772 Screens)
Gross: $170,128,460
(Worldwide)
(7 March 2011)
Technical Specs
Runtime:
Did You Know?
Trivia:
About $4,000 worth of jewelry worn by Susan Sarandon during the filming of the movie was stolen and recovered at murder scene in Winnipeg on 4 July 2003. According to news sources, the jewelry was stolen from a vehicle on the movie set and found in a downtown hotel room.
Goofs:
Factual errors:
In the first ballroom lesson Miss Mizzie teaches standard slow waltz mirror-inverted: she teaches "left foot forward, right foot side, right close..." which are ladies 2nd part steps. Men's are "right foot forward, left foot side, right close".
Quotes: John Clark:
The one thing I am proudest of in my whole life, is that you're happy with me. If I couldn't, if I couldn't tell you that I was unhappy sometimes, is because I didn't want to risk hurting the one person I treasure most. I'm so sorry.
User Review
Shall We Dance? Of Course !
Rating: 10/10
What a match-up of performers! Richard Gere with Susan Sarandon - very
strange initially, but very successful. While we typically identify Mr.
Gere with younger, more stereotypically "beautiful" actors, his pairing
with Ms. Sarandon was most fitting with his role in this film.
As he attempted to connect with himself, the natural entry of Jennifer
Lopez into his life was perfect. It was great to see the two characters
go from one end of the spectrum to another - hoping to see it go all
the way. While initially disappointing (really wanted to see them
together), it was a very do-able end result.
Of course, the dancing and music were a great focal point to the story
-I loved seeing Mr. Gere and Ms. Lopez doing their "thing." The
statistics of the voting on this site for this film were most puzzling.
One can only surmise that there were a great many voters who lack a
great deal of romance in their souls. Further, as many voters must have
lacked an appreciation of great music and dancing.
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