One Last Dance

Starring:Thom Allison, Jamie Bishton, Kathryn Bradney, George De La Pena, Nancy Drake, Aundra Ford, Daniel Heifetz, Elena Heifetz, Muriel Hogue, Tai Jiminez, Desmond Richardson, Stephanie Slater (II), Marie Stillin, Bambi Swayze, Patrick Swayze, Rasta Thomas, Matthew Walker, Timothy Webber, Stefan Wenta
Studio: Universal Studios
Product Type: DVD

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One Last Dance
Here's hoping it truly is the last dance!
A labor of love
Beautiful film.
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One Last Dance
Starring: Thom Allison , Jamie Bishton , Kathryn Bradney , George De La Pena , and Nancy Drake
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
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Release Date: 2005-08-23

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One Last Dance.......2007-06-29

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Here's hoping it truly is the last dance!.......2007-01-05

This is not Dirty Dancing. The movie had no flow, and when it ended it had no where to go anyway. The acting
was sloppy at best and the dancing, the reason one would buy such a movie, was just tolerable. Don't know what
the director of this bomb was thinking, but here's hoping this was their last film.

A labor of love.......2006-11-25

This movie is not without flaws--the dialogue and acting occasionally seem flat, recycled storylines, melodrama, etc., yet I am a sucker for dance movies and loved it nonetheless. It's pretty obvious from the get-go that Travis and Chrissa are soul mates destined to reconnect after seven years of separation and misunderstandings. When Alex, the emotionally abusive director of a New York Dance Company, goes too far with his criticisms (this is the point where I'd like to introduce people of Alex's bent to the wonders of Dale Carnegie in helpfully motivating people), three dancers' lives are redirected. Chrissa has a nervous breakdown (we later learn that she was newly pregnant during this scene, so horomones and stress contributed to her break) while Travis (injured from overexertion) can do little to comfort her besides telling off Alex. Max, the other member of the pas de trois, carries off a sobbing and temporarily deranged Chrissa to the nearest mental health hospital. (The three dancers were days away from premiering a pas de trois dance before this misfortune interrupts them.) Travis wrongfully assumes that Chrissa hasn't contacted him because she wants her space and wants him out of her life (he doesn't realize she had been hospitalized). Chrissa, meanwhile, is hurt that Travis hasn't inquired after her and therefore, keeps her pregnancy a secret from him. Max is the middle man, and seven years later, he is instrumental in reconnecting the estranged lovers when the struggling company decides to resurrect the Pas de Trois.

Yes, the plot is the stuff of soap operas, but it has heart, and the real-life love between Patrick Swayze (Travis) and his wife, Lisa Niemi (Chrissa), is palpable on-screen. Also, I can always empathize with someone who is experiencing a breakdown of sorts (read my Fred Luskin's "Forgive for Good" and Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar" reviews for an insider's perspective on what an awful experience this is). In addition, I appreciate this movie's undercurrent theme: move beyond the negative voices we've picked up through the years.

Swayze and Niemi are no longer twentysomethings, yet they hold their own in this physically demanding art form. They dance beautifully.

In the behind-the-scenes special feature, Swayze said that this production hired four choreographers to represent the latest happenings in the dance world. I loved the choreography and the dancing--it was breathtaking and innovative. (I watched this movie with a friend who takes dance classes with me, and I bemoaned to him--half kidding and half wistful, as dance is my foremost passion--that I would never dance at this caliber until my next life.) I was thrilled to see some of the very same dancers in this movie who have graced the covers of Dance and Pointe magazines. The dancers said that they felt like they really were members of the movie's dance company and that there was a spirit of collaboration and non-competitiveness as well as a suspension of ego during filming. One dancer said that he and the other dancers could easily and happily tour the movie's original dances to (he confidentally believed) great acclaim.

Beautiful film. .......2006-11-18

I am a dancer. I found the choreography in this movie beautiful, brillient and different. The emotion in it really touched me, and I had actually fallen out of dancing because of many different reasons and this movie really did bring me back to my love of dance. It's very rare to find dance movie that will offer quite as much as this movie did. Not to mention I absolutly adore George De La Pena. Awsome dancer and he was my favorite character in the movie. I love the fact that every character has something they are working through, no one is exactly perfect. To me, although the acting may not be what every one would call oscar quality, to me, it shows a glimps in to life. How pent up emotions can lead to frustrations that are some times difficult to get through. This movie, to me is well worth the watch. Sorry for the ramble.

Who wrote this? .......2006-11-10

Waste of time. I turned it off. The "extra features" were slightly interesting. The actual film was just a vehicle for the creators to show themselves dancing. A vanity piece. Why not present just the dance and save us from excruciating, badly-written melodrama. Don't bother.

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