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...years too early, they are undergoing a mid-teen crisis. The received wisdom (voiced in the most irresistible of the movie's nine radio-friendly songs) is to "Stick to the stuff you know... Stick to the status quo." Yet a few kids harbor subversive ambitions. The inner Troy wants to try out for the school musical, and another hoopster has a forbidden love for baking. One boy secretly plays the cello...
...Take the Lead” struck a chord for me. I saw a clip on television of a gentleman in a suit [Pierre Dulaine] teaching kids in inner city schools how to ballroom dance. What I loved most about the story is that he paired them up by height. Kids who wouldn’t talk in the cafeteria had to touch each other, hold each other, respect each other. He was teaching them life skills. If a kid is hunched over with his pants hanging down, his self-esteem is affected, it’s different than...
...Take the Lead” different from other inspirational films in which a coach or teacher helps inner city school kids to dream big and to find confidence and self-respect, films such as “Coach Carter” or even your own production “Knights of the South Bronx?...
...Served” with a twist of “Shall We Dance,” “Take the Lead” is based on the true story of Pierre Dulaine (played by Antonio Banderas), a ballroom dance instructor who introduced the art to inner New York City high school students. The dancing is phenomenal, and the movie is a guaranteed good time for a wide-ranging audience. Sexually charged young hetereosexual women will coo over Antonio Banderas, while the more geriatric, or straight male, viewer will appreciate the dancing and witty banter...
...Latoya and Rock, no information is ever given as to why the other students are in detention. While the viewer is told the students are amongst the most “troubled” in the school, they appear no different from the “normal” inner-city high school teenager outfitted in baggy jeans and sideways caps. Additionally, the students’ dancing improves at a surprising pace, and the ballroom competition at the end of the movie is very different from any real life competition of the sport...