In Reply to: Opinions on Strictly Ballroom posted by mwseik on February 23, 2004 at 00:37:46:
Vic,Before Baz went over the top with Moulin Rouge, he made this gem about a community crazed over its local ballroom dancing celebs and the pressure to win. It's a dark, grainy film that works because the cast is superb, the music is excellent, and it's funny.
This film cost peanuts to make and it made it back 10X because the audience could identify with the characters and because people enjoy watching professionals dance.
There was a Japanese remake of this recently that was also excellent.
Tosh
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Follow Ups
- Great Film - why can't Hollywood do stuff like this well - ToshiroMeyers 06:58:32 02/23/04 (4)
- I presume you mean Shall We Dance? - Victor Khomenko 07:08:26 02/23/04 (3)
- Shall We Dance -- a feel-good movie. - Dmitry 07:52:46 02/23/04 (0)
- Shall We Dance was good - ToshiroMeyers 07:17:09 02/23/04 (1)
- Re: Shall We Dance was good - Victor Khomenko 07:26:03 02/23/04 (0)