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Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School

2006 · 103 min

A gentle, bittersweet story that moves between grief and the quiet warmth of dance, asking for patience and rewarding it with tenderness.

Directed by: Randall Miller
Genres: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Starring: Robert Carlyle, John Goodman, Marisa Tomei

Tagline: One man's dream, another man's destiny.
Overview: Frank Keane, a baker by trade, has been consumed by grief over his wife's untimely death. But everything changes when he pulls his bread truck over on a rural highway to help a dying stranger entangled in a car wreck, who was on his way to a fateful reunion.

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Directed by: Randall Miller
Genres: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Starring: Robert Carlyle, John Goodman, Marisa Tomei

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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: grief
healing
love
found family
memory
Places: small town
workplace
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
ensemble
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	2
Horror	0
Humour	4
Realism	7
Romance	5
Tension	3
Darkness	4
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	7

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