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Center Stage: On Pointe

2016 · 92 min

A breezy, earnest dance drama where underdog ambition and backstage rivalry play out through energetic choreography and gentle life lessons.

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Genres
Music, Tv movie, Drama
Starring
Nicole Muñoz, Kenny Wormald, Rachele Brooke Smith
Overview
Jonathan Reeves is tasked with infusing more contemporary styles and modernism into the American Ballet Academy, and enlists his top choreographers Charlie, Cooper and Tommy to recruit dancers to compete at a camp where the winners will be selected to join the Academy. Bella Parker, who has always lived in the shadow of her hugely successful sister Kate, finally gets her chance to step into the limelight as one of the dancers recruited for the camp.

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Directed by
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Genres
Music, Tv movie, Drama
Starring
Nicole Muñoz, Kenny Wormald, Rachele Brooke Smith
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Tone
  • upliftingstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 1 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • ambition
  • identity
  • found family
  • coming-of-age
  • friendship
Places
  • school
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror0
Humour3
Realism7
Romance3
Tension4
Darkness2
Complexity3
Emotional weight4

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Genres
music, tv movie, drama
Directed by
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Written by
Liam Fearnley, Nisha Ganatra
Starring
Nicole Muñoz, Kenny Wormald, Rachele Brooke Smith, Peter Gallagher, Maude Green, Chloe Lukasiak, Barton Cowperthwaite, Thomas L. Colford
Cinematography
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Runtime
92 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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