Shall We Dance

Name: Shall We Dance
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Released: October 15, 2004
Duration: 106 min
Rating: 47
Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Richard Gere, Stanley Tucci, Susan Sarandon

2004

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Miramax Films | Release Date: October 15, 2004 | PG-13

Starring: Jennifer Lopez, Richard Gere, Stanley Tucci, Susan Sarandon

Summary: A workaholic lawyer's life and marriage take an unexpected twirl when he follows a beautiful woman to a Chicago dance studio and becomes a clandestine ballroom dance competitor. (Miramax)

Director: Peter Chelsom

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Romance

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 106 min

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William Arnold

A warm-hearted and understated entertainment that's blissfully free of the heavy-handed crudity and other elements that have ravaged 21st-century Hollywood comedy. Read full review

Carrie Rickey

The new film compensates with Gere's wry performance as a man who lacks for nothing material but hungers for something spiritual. Even better is Stanley Tucci's delirious turn as Gere's balding, button-down colleague. Read full review

Steve Davis

When it works, Shall We Dance? has a way of sweeping you off your feet. Read full review

Lawrence Toppman

The warm performances give the film momentum, but writer Audrey Wells and director Peter Chelsom (who chops dance sequences clumsily) often stumble. Read full review

Charles Taylor

The movie feels choppy and rhythmless. And he's (Chelsom) rather hopeless at dance sequences. Read full review

David Ng

While Suo's original was hardly a masterpiece, it featured a subtle performance from Koji Yakusho. Gere doesn't even compare, playing the part of a despondent lawyer with the empathy of a mannequin. Read full review

Peter Travers

What's left is a lot of strenuous playacting when what's called for is the finesse of the Japanese original. Skip this stub-toed substitute. Read full review

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Hugoema

Sep 9, 2019

Elenco es increíble, la historia no se queda atrás. Jennifer Lopez demuestra su talento tanto en la actuación como en el baile.

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horsth.

Dec 23, 2005

Easy entertainment.great music. Afeelgood movie.

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FilipeNeto

Sep 22, 2019

A fun and light romantic comedy, with some script and cast flaws, but a great bag of humor and music.

John Clark is a quiet, overworked lawyer with a stagnant marriage. Passing through a small dance school, she decides to come in and experiment, getting in touch with young Paulina, aA fun and light romantic comedy, with some script and cast flaws, but a great bag of humor and music.

John Clark is a quiet, overworked lawyer with a stagnant marriage. Passing through a small dance school, she decides to come in and experiment, getting in touch with young Paulina, a professional Latin dancer who works there, along with the school's owner, Miss Mitzi. But it gets complicated as Clark's wife becomes more suspicious of her husband's routines.

This romantic comedy has charm and knows to be interesting but is based on a somewhat predictable script that constantly suggests the romantic interest between Clark and Paulina ... the sexual tension between the two characters is palpable but such a thing never really happens. It's just a gimmick to keep the audience alert until the end. Gere is a nice actor who really looks good on characters like what he did here. Jennifer Lopez is extraordinarily beautiful but extremely serious, and her performance here is somewhat hampered by her lack of joy, playfulness and strength of character. It even seems that the actress was making the movie unwillingly. Much better was the rendering of Susan Sarandon or Anita Gillette. A word of appreciation, too, to Stanley Tucci and Lisa Ann Walter, to whom we owe most of the film's comic moments.

With a good photo, well-made costumes (highlighting the dance costumes) and good scenery, the film excelled by the soundtrack, which is truly interesting, appealing, fun and eclectic.… Expand

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vinidornellas

May 29, 2023

JLo is an arrogant and deplorable woman who doesn't know what quality and talent is. His works are hideous and dark.

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