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The Forbidden Dance is Lambada (1990)
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Reviews Counted:6
Fresh:1
Rotten:5
Average Rating:3.4/10
Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: An Amazon Indian princess, in an attempt to save her rain forest home from the destructive forces of a greedy corporation, travels to Los Angeles in hopes of convincing the company to change its... An Amazon Indian princess, in an attempt to save her rain forest home from the destructive forces of a greedy corporation, travels to Los Angeles in hopes of convincing the company to change its evil ways. There she hooks up with a rich boy from Beverly Hills and together they enter a nationally televised dance contest that the princess uses as a platform to spread her message of environmental awareness, while at the same time introducing the world to the sexually charged Brazilian dance known as the "lambada." [More]
Starring: Laura Elena Harring, Jeff James, Sid Haig, Richard Lynch
Starring: Laura Elena Harring, Jeff James, Sid Haig, Richard Lynch
Director: Greydon Clark
Director: Greydon Clark
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Reviews for The Forbidden Dance is Lambada
What's a nubile young monarch to do? Why, head to the States and school the nature-hating, money-grubbing Yanks with some hearty forbidden dancing, of course!
The movie feels like Dirty Dancing mixed with an 8-year-old's view of rain forest ecology.
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