Dance With Me Director: Randa Haines Cast: Vanessa L. Williams, Chayanne, Kris Kristofferson, Joan Plowright

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  • DVD Release Date: 09/03/2002
  • Original Release: 1998
  • Rating: Rated PG
  • Sales Rank: 45,337
 
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Closed Caption; Menus in Spanish, Portuguese, and English; Full Screen Formats; Interactive Menus; Audio: Spanish, Portuguese, and English (2-Channel and 5.1); Subtitles: Spanish, Portuguese, and English; Scene Selections; Extra Features: Includes Theatrical Trailer and Photo Gallery

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Scene Index

Side #1 --
1. Start [8:30]
2. Ruby [2:43]
3. The Dance Studio [1:40]
4. John Burnett [5:30]
5. Criticizing Ruby [6:43]
6. Weekly Party [9:07]
7. Club Titon [8:44]
8. Race Truck [6:13]
9. Backyard Party [5:41]
10. Return Engagement [5:42]
11. Seeing Ruby Home [2:37]
12. Drying Off [5:57]
13. Ballet Training [4:39]
14. Ruby's Plans [1:38]
15. Fishing for Answers [7:00]
16. Dance Championships [2:10]
17. Tango [:55]
18. Going Home [3:32]
19. "Why Don't You Do Right" [2:03]
20. Patricia & Rafael [3:10]
21. Bea & Rafael [3:07]
22. Round One [2:30]
23. Starting Over [1:50]
24. The Finalists [5:36]
25. Rumba [4:04]
26. The Results [1:40]
27. Job Offer [1:40]
28. Last Dance? [11:51]
Side #2 --
1. Start [8:30]
2. Ruby [2:43]
3. The Dance Studio [1:40]
4. John Burnett [5:30]
5. Criticizing Ruby [6:43]
6. Weekly Party [9:07]
7. Club Titon [8:44]
8. Race Truck [6:13]
9. Backyard Party [5:41]
10. Return Engagement [5:42]
11. Seeing Ruby Home [2:37]
12. Drying Off [5:57]
13. Ballet Training [4:39]
14. Ruby's Plans [1:38]
15. Fishing for Answers [7:00]
16. Dance Championships [2:10]
17. Tango [:55]
18. Going Home [3:32]
19. "Why Don't You Do Right" [2:03]
20. Patricia & Rafael [3:10]
21. Bea & Rafael [3:07]
22. Round One [2:30]
23. Starting Over [1:50]
24. The Finalists [5:36]
25. Rumba [4:04]
26. The Results [1:40]
27. Job Offer [1:40]
28. Last Dance? [11:51]

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Editorial Reviews

Randa Haines directed this dance drama, focusing on young Cuban Rafael Infante (Latino singer Chayanne) after the death of his mother. Rafael leaves Cuba for Houston, where he meets his father John Burnett (Kris Kristofferson) for the first time. Burnette is unaware that the young man is his son, and Rafael can't figure out how to tell him. Rafael's mother was a singer on cruise ships where Burnett was a dance instructor. Burnett owns the Excelsior Dance Studio, and he gives Rafael a handyman job there, where he meets and falls for the Ruby (Vanessa L. Williams) a beautiful professional dancer. With the Las Vegas World Open Dance competition in a few weeks, dancers work on their routines, and Ruby aims for the Vegas prize. Rafael partners with Patricia (Jane Krakowski) after Burnett loses interest in the competition, and Ruby dances with her brutish ex-boyfriend, the father of her young son. Then it's on to Vegas. This film features great dance numbers and an homage to Gene Kelly beneath a sprinkler system. Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide

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Dance With Meby Anonymous

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March 27, 2006: This movie is so good, it's too bad it didn't get the promotion and advertising when it was in theaters. The dancing was wonderful, the acting great and did I mention how fabulous the dancing was? Of course Vanessa Williams and Chayenne are absolutely beautiful(are they real?), and the costumes were stunning...I could go on. I think, though, it plays better on TV than the big screen, but if you enjoy musicals, this is definitely a great example of late 20th century efforts.

Dance With Meby Anonymous

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December 20, 2004: I was so blown away by the dance numbers and the handsomeness of Chayanne (yeah, yeah and Vanessa Williams looked good too), I hated the fact that the movie had a plot. Every time the dancing would get going--there would be the plot. The first time Rafael dances with a woman other than Ruby, the gorgeous costumes and the tribal music at the Las Vegas competition. After the fourth or fifth time, I had to buy the movie so that I could watch it any time I wanted. I hope he and Vanessa Williams get the chance to sing and dance together again. The two are the Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire of a new generation. The dance was loving, seductive--not vulgar or pornographic. Chayanne had very subtle mannerisms as Rafael (look closely or you'll miss them) that would make any woman's insides turn to tapioca. Ruby was not grabbed or groped to dance, she was invited to join the man in the dance--and the rest of the world disappeared. Ruby's final dance in Las Vegas and Rafael's first dance in Las Vegas where (I) both times the viewer sits on the sidelines and rooting for both in individual cagegories. I wanted so much for Ruby to walk away and to join Rafael, instead Rafael encourages Ruby and gets her to put herself into the music in a way that is loving, self-sacrificing, and one of the most powerfully sensuous moments of the whole movie. Oh, that I could dance upon the black notes and tripletts to turn myself into one with the nuance, crescendo/decrescendo and syncopation of the music.


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