Shall We Dance Page #2

Synopsis: John Clark is a middle aged Chicago estate lawyer. He loves his family, which includes his wife Beverly, but their combined busy schedules and getting caught in a rut after two decades of marriage has left him feeling unfulfilled. While taking the el train home every night, he notices the same young, beautiful contemplative woman staring out of one of the windows of Miss Mitzi's Dance Studio, which specializes in ballroom. He is intrigued enough with her beauty and sadness to go in one evening on his way home. He learns that she is Paulina, one of the instructors and a former world class ballroom dancer. Because of her, he signs up for beginner group dance lessons, regardless of them being taught by Miss Mitzi herself, and not Paulina. As time progresses, John gets caught up in the lives of those at Miss Mitzi's: his two fellow classmates - overweight Vern who wants to learn to dance for his upcoming wedding, and Chic, who wants to impress the ladies - and two of the studio's competiti
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Director(s): Peter Chelsom
Production: Miramax Films
  7 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.1
Metacritic:
47
Rotten Tomatoes:
46%
PG-13
Year:
2004
106 min
$57,825,111
Website
2,941 Views


Very good, Chic.

Is it "Chick," or "Sheek"?

- Whoa! "Chick."

- "Chick."

- Yes. Very good.

- Easy.

Remember to use

the balls of your feet.

Wait a minute, Vern.

Where is your right foot?

- It's right back there. See?

- Yes, I know. It hasn't moved, has it?

Not yet.

- Well, now would be a good time.

- OK.

- OK? Close.

- Close...

Excellent. Very good.

All right. Forward, side, close.

Back, side, close.

One, two, three, rise.

- Hey, hey, hey!

- You guys saw that?

Excellent, gentlemen.

Excellent.

Keep your sticks up.

Promenade.

- And...

- Counter-promenade.

Let me see what you're doing. Ah!

- Miss Mitzi, I'm sorry. Sorry.

- God! Jesus!

- I said I'm sorry.

- Put the stick down.

We're not gonna play with these sticks

anymore if you boys won't behave.

A little faster this time. And...

Heel, toe, toe-toe,

toe, heel, toe-toe.

Excuse me. When we go forward,

is it heel-toe or toe...

It's forward, heel, toe, toe...

So it's back... Whoa...

Harder than it looks,

isn't it, gentlemen?

Well, you've all done very very well

for your first lesson.

And before you leave tonight,

I'm gonna give you a little incentive

to keep on dancing.

Paulina?

Would you and Francesco mind giving

our new students a little demonstration?

Certainly, Miss Mitzi.

Daphne?

Thank you, Paulina.

Whoo! Whoo!

That was beautiful.

- You all right?

- Yeah, I'm good.

Hey, guys, wait up.

I'm comin'.

Great. How lucky for us.

- Hey.

- Where are we goin'?

- Somewhere close.

- Yeah. I haven't got long.

Anyway. You guys.

Don't go to Jim's.

They got a bad roach problem

there around the corner.

You're gonna go anywhere after class,

you come here, OK? Thank you.

Why'd you guys decide

to take dance, anyway?

- I'm gettin' married in September.

- Nice.

Yeah. My bride said she'd like

to see me lose a few pounds.

She thinks the dancing will help.

I said it won't.

- I think you'll win that argument.

- I'm taking classes to impress the ladies.

You know what they say

about guys who can dance, right?

- That they're great in bed.

- Yeah, baby.

- Where do you get that stupid crap?

- Everywhere. What do you think?

Everybody knows a guy who can move

on the dance floor can move in the sack.

Most guys, they can't dance at all. Guys

who can, they get their pick of the litter.

That's why, when I'm done with this class,

babes will drop at my feet.

They're gonna be droppin'

dead at your feet.

When you took your shoes off in class

today, I had to run to the window for air.

What kind of person says something like

that to somebody they don't even know?

Hey, man, I'm doin' you a favor.

I'm telling you something obnoxious about

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Audrey Wells

Audrey Wells (born April 29, 1960) is an American screenwriter, film director, and producer.Wells was born in San Francisco, California, and worked as a disc jockey at San Francisco jazz radio station KJAZ FM. She graduated from U.C. Berkeley and UCLA. She has written a number of successful screenplays and has directed three for which she had created the script. Among her notable works is The Truth About Cats & Dogs (1996) and Under the Tuscan Sun (2003), both of which she also produced. Her works to date have been primarily comedies and/or romance films. Her 1999 film Guinevere was entered into the 21st Moscow International Film Festival.Wells co-wrote the script for the comedy The Game Plan. more…

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