Too insubstantial to rise above being anything other than feel-good fluff...
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06/17/08
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... [More]
Starring: Vanessa Williams, Chayanne, Kris Kristofferson, Joan Plowright
Director: Randa Haines
Reviews for Dance With Me
Top CriticThe use of Plowright as a middle-aged frump wanting to get in on the sexy action is deeply patronizing.
01/26/06
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10/18/08
Top CriticThe real creative opportunities lie in visual and choreographic options, and Haines doesn't miss a beat in either department.
06/17/08
Top CriticFor every cliché embraced in its entirety, another is subverted just enough that you're pleasantly surprised.
06/17/08
Sparkles just like an old-fashioned musical--it's beautifully designed and skillfully directed.
01/09/07
No review available.
07/25/05
A quality film.
04/09/05
What is it about dance, that most joyous of arts, that inspires so many bad movies?
12/31/03
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.
07/02/03
A great big summer cheeseball of a movie that mildly entertains but doesn't stimulate.
05/14/03
No review available.
03/27/03
Competent but predictable soap opera.
10/15/02
Two hours-plus of melodrama and dancing dancing dancing danczzzz zzzz zzzzzzzz....
06/18/02
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06/05/02
Top CriticAlthough the movie bubbles occasionally, it never boils.
04/12/02
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03/24/02
Top CriticA romantic drama that makes the most of the many fine dance sequences in the storyline.
03/02/02
Throughout the film, Haines treats...banal moments as epiphanies, telegraphing every feeling and thought with annoying coyness.
02/14/01
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