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Dance with Me (1998)

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Average Rating: 5.5/10
Reviews Counted: 42
Fresh: 21 | Rotten: 21

Shallow script, weak direction.

Average Rating: 5.3/10
Critic Reviews: 12
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 6

Shallow script, weak direction.

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Movie Info

Randa Haines directed this dance drama, focusing on young Cuban Rafael Infante (Latino singer Chayanne) after the death of his mother. Rafael leaves Cuba for Houston, where he meets his father John Burnett (Kris Kristofferson) for the first time. Burnette is unaware that the young man is his son, and Rafael can't figure out how to tell him. Rafael's mother was a singer on cruise ships where Burnett was a dance instructor. Burnett owns the Excelsior Dance Studio, and he gives Rafael a handyman

PG, 2 hr. 7 min.

Drama, Romance, Musical & Performing Arts, Comedy

Directed By: Randa Haines

Written By: Daryl Matthews, Darryl Matthews

In Theaters: Aug 21, 1998 Wide

On DVD: Jan 12, 1999

Sony Pictures

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Cast

Vanessa L. Williams
Ruby Sinclair
Chayanne
Rafael Infante
Kris Kristofferson
John Burnett
Joan Plowright
Bea Johnson
Jane Krakowski
Patricia
Beth Grant
Lovejoy
William Marquez
Stefano
Harry Groener
Michael
Rick Valenzuela
Julian Marshall

Critic Reviews for Dance with Me

All Critics (45) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (21) | Rotten (21) | DVD (2)

The real creative opportunities lie in visual and choreographic options, and Haines doesn't miss a beat in either department.

June 17, 2008 Full Review Source: Variety

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Leonard Klady

Variety

Top Critic

Although the movie bubbles occasionally, it never boils.

April 12, 2002 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail

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Liam Lacey

Globe and Mail

Top Critic

Throughout the film, Haines treats...banal moments as epiphanies, telegraphing every feeling and thought with annoying coyness.

February 14, 2001 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times

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Jack Mathews

Los Angeles Times

Top Critic

Although Dance With Me disappoints on almost every level, it still leaves you mildly elated...

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: New York Times

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Stephen Holden

New York Times

Top Critic

Promises to be one of the summer's best date movies.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle

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Bob Graham

San Francisco Chronicle

Top Critic

This film's storyline couldn't be more pedestrian if it tried.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: CNN.com

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Paul Tatara

CNN.com

Top Critic

A Cuban searches for his father in Texas.

December 22, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media

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Nell Minow

Common Sense Media

For every clich� embraced in its entirety, another is subverted just enough that you're pleasantly surprised.

June 17, 2008 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide

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Maitland McDonagh

TV Guide's Movie Guide

Too insubstantial to rise above being anything other than feel-good fluff...

June 17, 2008 Full Review Source: Film4

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Film4

Sparkles just like an old-fashioned musical--it's beautifully designed and skillfully directed.

January 9, 2007 Full Review Source: Film Journal International

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Maria Garcia

Film Journal International

The use of Plowright as a middle-aged frump wanting to get in on the sexy action is deeply patronizing.

January 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out

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Charlotte O'Sullivan

Time Out

A quality film.

April 9, 2005 Full Review Source: Reeling Reviews

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Robin Clifford

Reeling Reviews

What is it about dance, that most joyous of arts, that inspires so many bad movies?

December 31, 2003 Full Review Source: Seattle Times

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Moira MacDonald

Seattle Times

When it turns its attention to bodies in motion, writhing across the floor to a salsa beat, the film is a joy to watch. When drama takes center stage, which is all too often, 'Dance' drags its feet.

July 2, 2003 Full Review Source: Kalamazoo Gazette

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James Sanford

Kalamazoo Gazette

A great big summer cheeseball of a movie that mildly entertains but doesn't stimulate.

May 14, 2003 Comment

Jeanne Aufmuth

Palo Alto Weekly

Competent but predictable soap opera.

October 15, 2002 Full Review Source: Cincinnati Enquirer

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Margaret A. McGurk

Cincinnati Enquirer

Two hours-plus of melodrama and dancing dancing dancing danczzzz zzzz zzzzzzzz....

June 18, 2002 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com

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Christopher Null

Filmcritic.com

A romantic drama that makes the most of the many fine dance sequences in the storyline.

March 2, 2002 Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice

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Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

Spirituality and Practice

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Watchable but easily forgetable

December 12, 2009

Wahida K

Super Reviewer

I love anything with dancing in it. :)

November 14, 2006

Leigh Ryan

Super Reviewer

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