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Actor(s):

Antonio Banderas, Rob Brown (VI), Yaya DaCosta, Alfre Woodard, John Ortiz

Director(s):

Liz Friedlander

Label: New Line Home Video
Publisher(s):

New Line Home Video

Studio: New Line Home Video
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
Binding: DVD
Brand: BANDERAS,ANTONIO
MPN: TRNDN10363D
Format(s): Closed-captioned, Color, Full Screen, NTSC
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
List Price: $12.98
Our Price: $5.99
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours

Editorial Reviews

Description

Inspired by a true story, Antonio Banderas stars as internationally acclaimed ballroom dancer Pierre Dulane in the energetic and moving film Take The Lead. When Dulane volunteers to teach dance in the New York public school system, his background first clashes with his students' tastes...but together they create a completely new style of dance.

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
Music Clips

Amazon.com

The sensuous thrill of ballroom dancing collides with the hip-hop world of self-expression in Take the Lead. Antonio Banderas (Desperado, The Mask of Zorro) stars as Pierre Dulaine, a dance teacher who--perhaps to fill a void in his own life--decides to teach the foxtrot and the tango to a group of inner-city high school students who've been put in detention. The kids sullenly resist this intruder with his silly box-steps, but gradually succumb to the allure of passion channeled into physical grace. It's a lot of hooey, of course--the stories about the individual kids are shallow melodrama--but a movie like this isn't so much about plot as about dancing, and the dancing bewitches. The main problem of Take the Lead is that there isn't enough dancing; at least half of the personal struggle of the students could be jettisoned and happily be replaced by fifteen minutes of a sleek and sexy rhumba. Still, Banderas has a warm, ingratiating presence and can spout platitudes about dance with conviction; Alfre Woodard (Crooklyn, Desperate Housewives) has her usual charismatic authority as the school's hard-nosed principal; and the dance competition at the movie's end gives the movie the lift it's wanted for the previous hour and a half. --Bret Fetzer

Customer Reviews

Take the Lead

product delivered in very short time
beautifull movie
1 regret : in Europe only playable on your laptop, not on tv, something about restricted areas, it's a pity

Time to take out your dancing shoes

This was a great movie. I had never seen it before and everyone has been trying to get me to watch it. I finally sat down and watched it. And I couldn't get enough of it. I would have to say out of the entire movie, the ending was the best part. From when they entered the competition to the last tango. I had a blast and it kept me on my toes. Literally I am now back in dance class. I showed my class this movie and almost all of them went to buy it. I adore this movie. Thank you Amazon for being so convenient. : )

Take The Lead video

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"Look at Mr. Dulane, gettin his flirt on"

This movie will want to make everyone go, and learn ballroom dancing. I love this movie, it great!!!!

I love Antonio Banderas!:)

I love dance films but Banderas does a great job as a charming dance teacher who helps iner city kids to show what they got. I reccomend this film it has a beat that will make you wanna move.:)

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