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Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School (2006)

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Average Rating: 4.7/10
Reviews Counted: 59
Fresh: 13 | Rotten: 46

Clumsily staged and brimming with melodrama and trite self-help cliches, this dance movie stays stuck at amateur level.

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Average Rating: 4.6/10
Critic Reviews: 21
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 17

Clumsily staged and brimming with melodrama and trite self-help cliches, this dance movie stays stuck at amateur level.

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Average Rating: 3.3/5
User Ratings: 4,725

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Movie Info

Randall Miller's Marilyn Hotchkiss Ballroom Dancing & Charm School compiles an all-star cast to tell an unabashedly emotional story about life, love, and destiny. Robert Carlyle portrays Frank Keane, a man who has been in a deep depression ever since his wife passed away. One day while driving, Frank sees an accident. He investigates the scene to see if he can help and meets a dying stranger (John Goodman), who tells Frank that he was headed to a dance school in order to reunite with a woman he

Jul 4, 2006

$0.2M

Samuel Goldwyn Films

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All Critics (62) | Top Critics (21) | Fresh (14) | Rotten (47) | DVD (3)

Miller has all but smothered the charm right out of his Charm School.

April 28, 2006 Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | Comment
Orlando Sentinel
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The picture trivializes the characters, hinting at depths it can't depict, aiming at a profundity of feeling it can't begin to reach.

April 21, 2006 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
San Francisco Chronicle
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Beyond Wahlberg's deft moves, School's dancing is leaden, not charming, and the only challenge is enduring the film's lumbering progress until it finally clicks at the end.

April 21, 2006 Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | Comment
Houston Chronicle
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Predictable and decidedly old-fashioned in its sensibility, the film is likely to win over audiences if not critics.

April 8, 2006 Comment
Hollywood Reporter
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Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School may stumble at times, but at least it gets out on the dance floor and has a good time.

April 7, 2006 Full Review Source: Detroit News | Comment
Detroit News
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The film moves like a newbie following a diagram of arrows and shoes and counting out loud.

April 7, 2006 Full Review Source: Denver Post | Comment
Denver Post
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Yet another ballroom dancing movie presents dance as a universal balm that heals life's problems in this mildly inspired dramatic comedy.

April 19, 2009 Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | Comment
ColeSmithey.com

Why would Frank drop everything to embark on this lunatic mission? Well, the answer is simple. If he didn't, there would be no movie - and perhaps that wouldn't have been such a bad thing.

July 19, 2008 Full Review Source: San Francisco Examiner | Comment
San Francisco Examiner

A surprisingly-moving message movie about love and redemption filled with sentimental and transformational moments leading to tearjerker of a finale.

July 7, 2007 Full Review Source: Upstage Magazine | Comment
Upstage Magazine

A miscast hodgepodge of a genre stew.

March 1, 2007 Full Review Source: Film Journal International | Comment
Film Journal International

That the film was itself borne out of risk invests its message with an honesty and an authenticity more than sufficient to offset its flaws.

August 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | Comment
Boxoffice Magazine

Utterly charming.

August 26, 2006 Full Review Source: rec.arts.movies.reviews | Comment
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Strong performances and moving themes are drowned in a sea of sentimentality.

August 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall | Comment
Shadows on the Wall

I could believe almost nothing of this under-written, over-emoted saga.

August 18, 2006 Full Review Source: Rochester Democrat and Chronicle | Comment
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

the entire movie is ridiculous

July 8, 2006 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | Comment
Filmcritic.com

This is a wildly ill-conceived jumble, and not even its impressive cast can rescue it.

July 3, 2006 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment
eFilmCritic.com

There's dancing all right but not a whole lot of charm.

June 27, 2006 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
Slant Magazine

This is perhaps John Goodman's worst performance.

June 27, 2006 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

... slight and slurry, like a champagne buzz.

June 2, 2006 Full Review Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | Comment
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

In this death-obsessed movie, the characters' lives flash before the audience's eyes - really, really slowly.

May 5, 2006 Comment
Salt Lake Tribune

Clunky romantic comedy, which has the annoying habit of turning dead serious at exactly the wrong moment.

May 5, 2006 Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | Comment
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

Not content to tell two lousy, maudlin stories at once, the movie goes for a full three.

April 27, 2006 Full Review Source: Orlando Weekly | Comment
Orlando Weekly

The movie is so bad it brings up a question %u2014 what's the opposite of a comeback film?

April 27, 2006 Full Review Source: Arizona Daily Star | Comment
Arizona Daily Star
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Audience Reviews for Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School

Totally cute and funny.

September 20, 2009
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Super Reviewer

Stars for having such a great cast. John Goodman plays a memorable character, and it has Ernie Hudson so you know you want some.

November 22, 2007
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