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Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School (2006)
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Reviews Counted:59
Fresh:13
Rotten:46
Average Rating:4.7/10
Consensus: Clumsily staged and brimming with melodrama and trite self-help cliches, this dance movie stays stuck at amateur level.
Theatrical Release:Mar 31, 2006 Limited
Box Office: $182,515
Synopsis: MARILYN HOTCHKISS' BALLROOM DANCING AND CHARM SCHOOL begins with a fated meeting, as Frank (Robert Carlyle) pulls over to aid a car-crash victim, Steve (John Goodman), who is slowly dying by the... [More]
Starring: Robert Carlyle, Marisa Tomei, Mary Steenburgen, Donnie Wahlberg
Director: Randall Miller
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Reviews for Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School
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 C |
Yet another ballroom dancing movie presents dance as a universal balm that heals life's problems in this mildly inspired dramatic comedy. Full Review |
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2/4 |
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. Full Review |
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 4/4 |
A surprisingly-moving message movie about love and redemption filled with sentimental and transformational moments leading to tearjerker of a finale. Full Review |
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A miscast hodgepodge of a genre stew. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
Utterly charming. Full Review |
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2.5/5 |
Strong performances and moving themes are drowned in a sea of sentimentality. Full Review |
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3/4 |
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. Full Review |
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3/10 |
I could believe almost nothing of this under-written, over-emoted saga. Full Review |
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2.5/5 |
the entire movie is ridiculous Full Review |
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2/5 |
This is a wildly ill-conceived jumble, and not even its impressive cast can rescue it. Full Review |
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85/100 |
... slight and slurry, like a champagne buzz. Full Review |
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1.5/4 |
In this death-obsessed movie, the characters' lives flash before the audience's eyes - really, really slowly. Full Review |
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2/4 |
Clunky romantic comedy, which has the annoying habit of turning dead serious at exactly the wrong moment. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Miller has all but smothered the charm right out of his Charm School. Full Review |
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Not content to tell two lousy, maudlin stories at once, the movie goes for a full three. Full Review |
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1.5/4 |
The movie is so bad it brings up a question %u2014 what's the opposite of a comeback film? Full Review |
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1/4 |
The picture trivializes the characters, hinting at depths it can't depict, aiming at a profundity of feeling it can't begin to reach. Full Review |
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1.5/4 |
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. Full Review |
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