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Dance With Me (1998)
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Reviews Counted:39
Fresh:18
Rotten:21
Average Rating:5.4/10
Consensus: Shallow script, weak direction.
Runtime: 2 hrs 7 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Rafael Infante (Chayanne), a Cuban native who never met his real father, immigrates to America. Taking up residence in Houston, he begins searching for his illegitimate father and takes up... Rafael Infante (Chayanne), a Cuban native who never met his real father, immigrates to America. Taking up residence in Houston, he begins searching for his illegitimate father and takes up employment as a superintendent at the world renowned Excelsior Dance Studio run by John Burnett (Kris Kristofferson). While working as a lowly handyman, Rafael meets Ruby (Vanessa Williams), a striking dancer. Together they enter into the Las Vegas World Open Dance competition and embark in a heated romance. DANCE WITH ME is a warm heartfelt film. It exhibits Randa Haines' knack for suspenseful, romantic storytelling (she worked as a director on HILL STREET BLUES in the early 1980s). Kris Kristofferson departs from his standard role of grit-iron tough guy to play the effeminate dance instructor. Chayanne is striking and dapper. He demonstrates that dancing is both a sexy art form and a mode of expression for confident and empowered men. [More]
Starring: Vanessa Williams, Chayanne, Kris Kristofferson, Joan Plowright
Starring: Vanessa Williams, Chayanne, Kris Kristofferson, Joan Plowright, Jane Krakowski, Beth Grant
Director: Randa Haines
Director: Randa Haines
Screenwriter: Darryl Matthews
Composer: Michael Convertino
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Reviews for Dance With Me
The real creative opportunities lie in visual and choreographic options, and Haines doesn't miss a beat in either department.
For every cliché embraced in its entirety, another is subverted just enough that you're pleasantly surprised.
Too insubstantial to rise above being anything other than feel-good fluff...
Sparkles just like an old-fashioned musical--it's beautifully designed and skillfully directed.
The use of Plowright as a middle-aged frump wanting to get in on the sexy action is deeply patronizing.
What is it about dance, that most joyous of arts, that inspires so many bad movies?
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.
A great big summer cheeseball of a movie that mildly entertains but doesn't stimulate.
Two hours-plus of melodrama and dancing dancing dancing danczzzz zzzz zzzzzzzz....
A romantic drama that makes the most of the many fine dance sequences in the storyline.
Throughout the film, Haines treats...banal moments as epiphanies, telegraphing every feeling and thought with annoying coyness.
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