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Step tells an irresistibly crowd-pleasing story in a thoroughly absorbing way -- and while smartly incorporating a variety of timely themes. Read critic reviews

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The senior year of a girls' high school step team in inner-city Baltimore is documented, as they try to become the first in their families to attend college. The girls strive to make their dancing a success against the backdrop of social unrest.
  • Rating:
    PG (Thematic Elements|Some Language)
  • Genre:
    documentary
  • Original Language:
    English
  • Director:
    Amanda Lipitz
  • Producer:
    Steven Cantor, Amanda Lipitz
  • Release Date (Theaters):
     limited
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  • Box Office (Gross USA):
    $973.7K
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  • Production Co:
    Stick Figure Productions

Cast & Crew

Blessin Giraldo
Amanda Lipitz
Director
Barbara Dobkin
Executive Producer
Dan Cogan
Executive Producer
Steven Cantor
Producer
Amanda Lipitz
Producer
Casey Regan
Cinematographer
Penelope Falk
Film Editor
Laura Karpman
Original Music
Raphael Saadiq
Original Music
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  • Step is the story of young girls who are beating the odds. After seeing it, I hope audiences remember these girls never should have had to face such odds in the first place.

    September 26, 2017 | Full Review…

    Soraya Nadia McDonald

    The Undefeated

  • Rest assured audience members will be thinking about Step long after it's over.

    September 16, 2017 | Full Review…

    Valerie Complex

    Birth.Movies.Death.

  • There's a slickness to this storytelling that makes everything feel slightly fraudulent, even if it isn't. And yet I kind of loved it.

    August 13, 2017 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

    Wendy Ide

    Observer (UK)

  • No movie has lifted up my soul this year as much as this one has. No movie has had me crying tears of pure joy in quite the volume this one has.

    August 11, 2017 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…

    Sara Michelle Fetters

    MovieFreak.com

  • The portrait of the girls, their hard-up but loving parents (two are single mums, men being conspicuous by their absence) and the school staff egging them on is in turns saddening and lovely, the drama of their collective effort intensely moving.

    August 11, 2017 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

    Demetrios Matheou

    London Evening Standard

  • Step is a story about relationships. And how even the most challenging family ties shape us into the people we are destined to become.

    August 11, 2017 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

    Gayle MacDonald

    Globe and Mail
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