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- 2014
- Not Rated
- 1 h 47 m
- 2014
- Not Rated
- 1 h 47 m
Summary A retired woman (Gena Rowlands) hires a dance instructor (Cheyenne Jackson) to give her private dance lessons at her home—one per week for six weeks. As they dance together, an antagonistic relationship turns into a close friendship.
Directed By: Arthur Allan Seidelman
Written By: Richard Alfieri
- 2014
- Not Rated
- 1 h 47 m
- 2014
- Not Rated
- 1 h 47 m
Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks
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Summary A retired woman (Gena Rowlands) hires a dance instructor (Cheyenne Jackson) to give her private dance lessons at her home—one per week for six weeks. As they dance together, an antagonistic relationship turns into a close friendship.
Directed By: Arthur Allan Seidelman
Written By: Richard Alfieri
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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25% Positive
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75% Mixed
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There are some poignant moments in the movie's latter half, as well as a couple of genuine laughs. If it never achieves the heft it wants, it at least manages a sitcommy kind of charm, like an extended episode of "The Golden Girls." Perhaps more importantly, it gives Rowlands a lead role, which is never a bad thing.
Though it's no surprise that Rowlands shines on both the comedic and dramatic fronts, the versatile Jackson is often equally impressive.
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It’s a cornball odd-couple comedy: Prim older woman meets a brassy young gay man. Still, it’s extraordinary just watching the peerless Ms. Rowlands wring the most out of the repartee in this adaptation of a play by Richard Alfieri.
For all these missteps — including the convenient and predictable use of elderly death as a plot device — the leads’ odd-couple chemistry does become steadier and affectionate as their dance lessons continue, and the film manages to close on a quietly touching final note.
Seeing this great actress, age 84, draw real feeling and laughs from such mediocre material is worth the watch.
It should be a sturdy player upon its release in home video formats, assuming that its target audience knows how to operate their DVD players.
For a film whose central motif is dance, there's remarkably little dancing done onscreen, and though Rowland and her co-star share moments of tender, revealing conversation, the movie is ultimately underwhelming, its emotional range as limited as that of its characters.
