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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 9781415714553
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 141571455X
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 18, 2005
Running Time: 105 minutes
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: May 13, 2005
Sales Rank: 6503
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Product Description:
Ballroom dancing goes from lame to cool for a group of new york city public school kids in this insightful documentary. The film follows a group of 11 year olds as they learn to dance old-school styles including the merengue rumba tango foxtrot & swing. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 05/01/2007 Rating: Pg
Amazon.com:
If the delightful spectacle of preteen kids dancing the foxtrot and the merengue isn't enough to lure you in, add the pressure of a dance competition and the triumph of troubled kids finding self-respect through discipline--if Mad Hot Ballroom were a Hollywood movie, it would be too corny for words. Instead, it's an engrossing documentary about a wildly successful after-school program in New York City. Mad Hot Ballroom follows a handful of kids in three different schools from the beginning of their dance classes to the night of the inter-school dance finals. Regrettably, the movie fails to pursue the dancers themselves; a few scenes provide glimpses of some smart, articulate kids with vivid personalities and compelling emotions, but the filmmakers make a minimal effort to draw the kids out or explore their lives outside of the classes. Watching the kids develop as dancers is still gripping and the final competition will have you on the edge of your seat, but it could have been all the more so. Though certainly worthy and genuinely heartwarming, you can't help but feel that Mad Hot Ballroom lost an opportunity for something truly dazzling. --Bret Fetzer
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This was much better than the average mainstream movie put out that year. I was really amazed by this little flick. Yes a documentary.
The innocence, naivete and energy of the kids in it is really captured well here. To the point that they are so relaxed I had to keep reminding myself that there is even a camera pointed at them.
It is about grammar school kids from NYC competing in a Ball Room dance contest (it is "mad hot", as the kids put it)
It focuses ... Read More
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I had checked this movie out from the library, loved it, and had to buy my own copy. What an excellent idea to teach children ballroom dancing! So many school districts have eliminated music lessons and even recess so to see a program like this one was most refreshing.
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This is a great documentary for children who are interested in dance. It is also a good way to introduce competition.
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I got this movie because I enjoyed Spellbound and this one was recommended as being in the same vein, and I greatly enjoyed the film. It's more than a look at competitive dancing among children, but an exploration of their world and all the complicated issues they face. You couldn't help but get emotionally involved in the competition, seeing the joys of victory and the hardships of defeat. People who love dancing or just good documentaries ought to check this film out.
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I adored this movie. Don't let the 2 hour production time scare you off; it goes by in a flash. In this 2005 documentary, 5th graders from New York City public schools learn ballroom dancing (merengue, rumba, tango, the foxtrot and swing) as part of a 10 week course. As they learn the dances and the disciplines involved you see them change from shy skittish children to consummate dancers all culminating in the final citywide competition.
You get to really know these wonderful children. ... Read More
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