Mad Hot Ballroom

Mad Hot Ballroom
by Marilyn Agrelo

Mad Hot Ballroom
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Actor: Emma Therese Biegacki, Graciela Daniele, Heather Berman, Paul Daggett, Pierre Dulaine
Director: Marilyn Agrelo
Brand: Paramount
Cinematographer: Claudia Raschke
Producer: Marilyn Agrelo
Editor: Sabine Krayenb?hl
Producer: Amy Sewell
Writer: Amy Sewell
Producer: Brian David Cange
Producer: W. Wilder Knight II
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 105 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-10-18
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Paramount

Movie Reviews of Mad Hot Ballroom

Movie Review: A Must See
Summary: 5 Stars

I saw this movie in the theatre in '05 and absolutely loved it. I work with youth and had an event for parents where they would do something with their children. I decided to show this movie because I knew many of the families hadn't seen it and the film has many relateable messages. What a great film. I laughed, I cried, I got excited as if this were the first time I saw it. This is a great movie that everyone will enjoy!

Summary of Mad Hot Ballroom

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
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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