Marilyn Hotchkiss’ Ballroom Dancing & Charm School 2005 123movies

Watch: Marilyn Hotchkiss’ Ballroom Dancing & Charm School 2005 123movies, Full Movie Online – Dance is a very powerful drug, if embraced judiciously; to reap its rewards, one must shoulder its challenges with intrepid countenance. Frank Keene, a grieving baker in a near catatonic state, happens on a car accident. The loquacious and insightful victim, Steve Mills, is on his way to an appointment in Pasadena with a years-ago acquaintance; he asks Frank to go in his place. It’s a dance class. Frank goes, to find Steve’s friend. The story moves back and forth among Steve’s childhood, the scene of the accident, and the aftermath of Frank’s first Lindy hop. Black eyes, group therapy, loneliness, boys being boys, roads not taken, and saying good-bye color the story..
Plot: Writer-director Randall Miller’s heart-achingly sweet drama centers on the unsatisfying personal life of protagonist Frank Keane, a sensitive baker who remains deeply despondent over his late wife’s untimely death. When Frank helps a stranger who’s sidelined by a fatal accident on his way to a fateful reunion, he decides to show up for the rendezvous in the man’s place. In the process, he finds hope and redemption.
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Ratings:

	6.5/10 Votes: 3,372
	22% | RottenTomatoes
	40/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 56 Popularity: 5.35 | TMDB

Reviews:

Wonderful Movie
I saw this movie at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. It truly was a wonderful package. All parts come together. After the film, the audience gave it a standing applause. It was a hit with the audience, including myself. I would see it again. Robert Carlyle was very good as the sympathetic baker, consumed by his wife’s death, and inadvertently drawn into an emergency situation. The director/writer incorporates his older film of a boy’s experience of being forced to go to dance and charm school, melding it perfectly with the now adult man’s perception played by John Goodman. Others in the film were Marisa Tomei, Mary Steenburgen, Donnie Wahlber, and Sean Astin, all giving a wonderful performance.

An Unfortunate Title for an Unfortunate Film Ostensibly About Spiritual Reawakening
Writer-director Randall Miller tries far too hard to make a multi-layered film about spiritual reawakening that he defaults into either formula or incoherence to move his low-budget movie along. With its unwieldy title signaling its contrivance, the 2006 dramedy, co-written by Miller and his wife Jody Savin, is an oddly unsatisfying film that attempts to track three different timelines through jumpy edits and differing film stock. Filmed in irritating bleached tones, the first storyline focuses on Frank Keane, an Irishman who moved his family’s baking business to California. Shell-shocked from his wife’s recent suicide, he comes upon a road accident which has left the driver badly hurt and pinned inside his car. The victim is Steve Mills, an overweight, seemingly gregarious man who was rushing to meet Linda, his childhood crush from forty years earlier, in the ballroom where they last saw each other.

This kick-starts the second storyline, which flashes back to Steve’s pre-adolescence when he accidentally gave Linda a black eye during a rough game of British Bulldog. With heavy echoes of “The Wonder Years”, this portion of the movie is actually footage from Miller’s 1990 short with the same title. It shows Steve and Linda first dancing at the Marilyn Hotchkiss ballroom. With Steve sharing his memories with Frank and Frank attempting to keep Steve conscious on the way to the hospital, we are given the third storyline which takes place again in the Marilyn Hotchkiss ballroom, this time in the present day. This time, in Steve’s place, Frank shows up for dance class trying to find the now adult Linda amid a gallery of eccentric characters learning to dance under the tutelage of the late Marilyn’s daughter, Marienne. Even more characters are introduced by way of Frank’s therapy support group of recently widowed men.

The cumulative result is a hodgepodge of artificial moments that feed into Miller’s overriding theme of getting on with one’s life in spite of the barriers one faces. For such a potentially strong ensemble, the performances are variable though mainly because most of the actors are not given enough screen time to flesh out their stereotypical characters. With his mangy-looking hair and sad eyes, Robert Carlyle does well enough as Frank, though his zombie-like behavior at the outset is enough to unsettle anyone. John Goodman plays Steve as the accident victim, though the combination of his bulky, uncomfortable-looking frame and his wheezing delivery is hard to watch for an extended period. Marisa Tomei affectingly portrays Frank’s new love interest, Meredith, who holds a secret and has an intractable link to her constant dance partner, Randall, played convincingly by Donnie Wahlberg as an egocentric bully who feels he owns the dance floor.

Others are simply wasted in smaller roles – an affected Mary Steenburgen as the prim Marienne who demands order and courtesy in her late mother’s ballroom; Sonia Braga as a flirtatious dancer; and as members of Frank’s support group, Sean Astin, Adam Arkin, David Paymer and Ernie Hudson. The ending contains something of a twist, and Camryn Manheim and Danny DeVito show up late in the film in intriguing cameos. But by that point, it all comes too late due to the overlapping story lines and sluggish pacing. The DVD has rather perfunctory commentary from Miller, Savin and actor Elden Hensen, who plays both Frank’s bakery co-worker in the modern sequences and Sam in the vintage flashbacks filmed in 1990 when he was thirteen. The other significant extra is the original 1990 short with William Hurt providing the memory flashback voice-over as the adult Sam. The package strangely does not make clear that this is the inspiration for the later film, so it seems like a patched-together version of the flashback scenes.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 44 min (104 min), 1 hr 43 min (103 min) (USA)
Budget 2500000
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Comedy, Drama, Musical
Director Randall Miller
Writer Randall Miller, Jody Savin
Actors Robert Carlyle, Marisa Tomei, Mary Steenburgen
Country United States
Awards 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Panavision (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 35 mm