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Name: Center Stage
Released: 2000-5-12
Cast: Peter Gallagher, Amanda Schull, Eion Bailey, Ethan Stiefel, Debra Monk

Center Stage

PG-13
1h 56m
2000

42%

age 14+

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The American Ballet Company is not for the fainthearted, it's for the most gifted and beautiful ballet dancers alive. But you'll need more than mere physical prowess and determination to succeed. You'll need to deliver the goods at Center Stage. Jonathan Reeves (Peter Gallagher, American Beauty), the ballet company's owner is evaluating this young tight-knit group of students as they face the growing pains of their ambitions, romances and heartbreaks which prove to be both invigorating and difficult. The results are a celebration of beauty, bodies, and ballet.

Director:

Nicholas Hytner

Producer:

Laurence Mark

Writer:

Carol Heikkinen

Cast:

Peter Gallagher, Amanda Schull, Eion Bailey, Ethan Stiefel, Debra Monk, Zoe Saldana, Julie Kent

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

42%

Critics Consensus: Viewers willing to sit through soapy plot contrivances to see some excellent dancing might enjoy Center Stage; for everyone else, there's still always Fame.

Reviews

Patrick Nabarro

PJ Nabarro

This unintentionally hilarious variant on the time-old high school/college/'Fame' staple features some of the most rote storytelling and characterisation going.

Melodramatic, a bit racy -- some teens will love.

June 22, 2017

FULL REVIEW

Variety

Emanuel Levy

Assuming that every generation needs its own dance film, Hytner revists the turf of films like Turning Point (classic ballet), Chrous Line (Broadway dancing) and Saturday Night Fever (disco) and blends together their themes and persona to little effect.

June 21, 2017

Supercala.com

John Venable

If I was a 12 year old girl who takes any sort of dance classes, this would be my favorite film of all time...but I'm not.

Common Sense Media

age 14+

Common Sense Says

Melodramatic, a bit racy -- some teens will love.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that one dancer collapses in tears from an injury. The movie depicts the intense pressure that women dancers are under to achieve an ideal body type; no mention is made of the similar pressures that afflict their male colleagues. One of the male dancers is gay. The star ballerina is under plenty of parental pressure and suffers from bulimia. The head of the ballet school married one of his students (despite a substantial age gap). One f-word and some mild bathroom and sexual language. Jodie and her under-age buddies go out drinking and end up with serious hangovers (a "problem" that's played for laughs). Many of the dancers smoke. Maureen's mom pushes her constantly to "be the best." Jodie has sex with the male star dancer, who sleeps around. A Russian student dances torridly with an older woman he picks up in a salsa club. An off-color joke about a mouse having its way with an elephant is lame and unnecessary. A sexual pas-de-deux involves some writhing around on a bed, and Jodi strips down to a costume that looks like a bra and panties.