Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
2005 · Movie · PG-13 · 103 min · ★ 5.9 · 31% critics
A grieving baker stops to help an injured stranger on a lonely highway and ends up carrying out a heartfelt errand. That detour leads him to a ballroom dance school, where loss, connection, and the chance to begin again start to reshape his life.
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Details
- Years
- 2005
- Release date
- 2006-01-12
- Language
- English
- Rated
- PG-13
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 31/100
- TMDB rating
- 5.9/10 (73 votes)
About
If you like tender, offbeat stories about loss, healing, and unexpected second chances, this may land somewhere between Finding Your Feet and A Good Year; Not for you if you dislike sentimentality or loose, nonlinear storytelling.
Pros: heartfelt themes; original premise; gentle uplifting tone | Cons: uneven storytelling; heavy-handed emotion; limited dance focus
Themes
- depression
- regret
- ambulance
- support group
- etiquette
- bakery
- flashback
- grieving widower
- ballroom dancing
- car accident
- widower
- dance lesson
- +8 more
Cast & crew
Robert Carlyle
as Frank Keane
John Goodman
as Steve Mills
Marisa Tomei
as Meredith Morrison
Mary Steenburgen
as Marienne Hotchkiss
Elden Henson
as Young Steve Mills / Samson
Donnie Wahlberg
as Randall Ipswitch
Sean Astin
as Kip Kipling
David Paymer
as Rafael Horowitz
Ernie Hudson
as Blake Rische
Camryn Manheim
as Lisa Gobar
Directed by Randall Miller