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  • 2012
  • PG-13
  • Paladin
  • 1 h 42 m
  • 2012
  • PG-13
  • Paladin
  • 1 h 42 m

Summary Mia and Armando meet at a midtown Manhattan dance studio where Mia is an instructor and Armando is a part-time handyman who exchanges his janitorial duties for dance lessons. Despite their differences, there is clearly a spark between them that is ignited one night when they find themselves alone practicing in the studio. But before thei...

Directed By: Susan Seidelman

Written By: Marty Madden

  • 2012
  • PG-13
  • Paladin
  • 1 h 42 m
  • 2012
  • PG-13
  • Paladin
  • 1 h 42 m

Musical Chairs

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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Summary Mia and Armando meet at a midtown Manhattan dance studio where Mia is an instructor and Armando is a part-time handyman who exchanges his janitorial duties for dance lessons. Despite their differences, there is clearly a spark between them that is ignited one night when they find themselves alone practicing in the studio. But before thei...

Directed By: Susan Seidelman

Written By: Marty Madden

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75
Mar 22, 2012
Musical Chairs is about overcoming impossible odds and never giving up and chasing your dreams – all that afterschool-special stuff - but it's also charming and upbeat, and it's stuffed with great, vibrant, insanely catchy music. No Bee Gees, though.
By Rene Rodriguez FULL REVIEW
60
Mar 24, 2012
Lightweight but likeably uncynical.
By John DeFore FULL REVIEW
50
Mar 29, 2012
Though there's plenty of movement and enthusiasm, director Susan Seidelman is content with a metronomic approach to manipulating our feelings - buoyant Latin music never felt so routinely scene-setting - and seems afraid to let anyone on-screen depart from established caricature.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
50
Mar 23, 2012
The story never quite gets into the groove.
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42
Mar 21, 2012
Musical Chairs wants to speak eloquently and powerfully for the disabled. Instead it speaks down to them in the vernacular of bad television comedies, cheeseball underdog dance movies, and abysmal soap operas.
By Nathan Rabin FULL REVIEW
40
Mar 22, 2012
In truth, Musical Chairs is so simplistic it almost feels like a first film.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
40
Mar 20, 2012
All would be forgiven if Seidelman weren't so damningly dispassionate about dance, cutting up and away from movement and devaluing the thing we'd countenance so much cheese in order to see.
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Production Company Active Fox Productions, JMC Independent Productions, The Film Community
Release Date Mar 23, 2012
Duration 1 h 42 m
Rating PG-13
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Tagline Everybody dances to their own beat.
Website http://www.musicalchairsthefilm.com/
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Awards

Massachusetts Independent Film Festival
• 6 Wins & 6 Nominations
GLAAD Media Awards
• 1 Nomination

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