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Synopsis: The education of three young students, Jodie, Eva and Maureen, as they study at the American Ballet Academy. Life isn't what they expected at the esteemed ABA, and all three face problems along the road. Jodie doesn't have the "ideal" body for dancing, Eva doesn't have the right attitude, and Maureen doesn't have the heart. Along the way, they learn that love can be found in unlikely places, and dancing should be a passion, not a duty.
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Director(s): Nicholas Hytner
Production: Columbia Pictures
  1 win.
 
IMDB:
6.7
Metacritic:
52
Rotten Tomatoes:
43%
PG-13
Year:
2000
115 min
Website
1,862 Views


You call that salsa? Come on, Erik.

We'll show them salsa.

Get your asses up here.

- What is that?

- That's not salsa.

- That is not salsa.

- Use the technique, Charlie.

Here we go, girl.

Where are you from?

- Jersey.

- New Jersey?

Me. I'm from Russia.

Yeah? What are you doing here?

I'm a ballet dancer.

How do I do this exactly?

You've never bowled before?

No.

Just roll it on down there.

In Nepal, there's a jungle with an elephant

walking and he steps on a thorn.

He says, "That hurts."

He sees a little mouse and says,

"Help me get the thorn out of my foot."

And the mouse goes, "You stepped on

my uncle last week. No way."

He goes, "Please, I'll do anything.

It really hurts."

- The mouse goes, "Anything?"

- He says, "Yeah."

So he takes out the thorn.

The elephant feels so much better,

and he says, "How can I repay you?"

The mouse goes, "I want to have

my way with you. You're sexy."

And the elephant goes, "No."

He goes, "You promised."

And starts doing the elephant.

The elephant says, "I'll let him finish.

It's the right thing to do."

There's three monkeys in a tree.

They see this mouse hump the elephant.

They pick up these coconuts

and just start chucking them.

They hit the elephant in the head.

The elephant goes. "My God, that hurts."

The mouse doesn't even stop.

He says, "Yeah. Take it all, b*tch."

This is my kind of a mouse.

Why can't all dancing be this fun?

All dancing is this fun.

Maybe for you.

Russia?

So, what are you doing in New York?

Mafia.

You got...

I've got it.

Would it...

...be presumptuous to ask to come up?

Yeah.

Plus, you're not allowed. Dorm rules.

So this is good night.

I think so. Yeah.

But not goodbye.

No.

No, not goodbye.

I have to go.

Good night.

Guys, let's go to another club.

I want to dance.

- All right, ma'am. Time to go.

- Taxi, taxi!

You're sweaty.

I don't mind, because you're sweet.

And so is your sweat.

Sweet sweat.

You are, too.

What? Sweet or sweaty?

Both.

- I'm sorry. Sorry.

- Come on, Jody.

Can't do another one of these today.

Careful with that one.

You break it, you bought it.

Okay, stop.

Stop.

You five, come here.

God.

When you show up to class

unprepared to work, it's an insult.

Not just to me.

To your fellow students and to the school.

Get out of my class.

How many studios are there altogether?

Eight.

That's a lot of mirrors.

It was worth it just to see Sergei

getting it on with that old lady.

- I had forgotten all about that.

- We weren't getting it on.

Right.

I thought she was going to detach her jaw

and swallow you whole.

I'm just trying to imagine

what the lovely Galina...

...would say about that.

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Carol Heikkinen

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Submitted on August 05, 2018

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