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1992 Certificate PG
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This wildly off-beat comedy is about a male dancer (Paul Mercurio) who refuses to follow the accepted rules of ballroom dancing and creates his own style of choreography, which infuriates the ballroom dancing establishment. Before he's scheduled to compete in the Pan-Pacific ballroom championships, he's forced to take up a new .. Read more

Starring Paul Mercurio, Tara Morice, Bill Hunter, Pat Thomson
Director Baz Luhrmann
Genres Drama

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    Fox keeps Luhrmann waiting

    • 31 Mar 2006

    The glittering Australian triumvirate of Baz Luhrmann, Nicole Kidman (The Hours, Moulin Rouge, Eyes Wide Shut) and Russell Crowe (Gladiator, Cinderella Man, The Insider) are waiting on the green light from studio executives at 20th Century Fox before they can get on with the serious business of filming their epic Aussie WW2 film. Following the collapse of last years Kidman-Crowe collaboration, Eucalyptus, filmgoers will be wondering whether the project is doomed to failure. With Baz Lurhmann... Read more

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    Australia

    • 22 Dec 2008

    Bad movies come in all shapes and sizes. This one is a doozy, a big, sweeping national epic that cost Rupert Murdoch’s Twentieth Century Fox an arm and a leg ($130 million) and which has been hobbled by its weak US showing. Of course it’s doing nicely down under, but the real question is: what will the rest of the world make of it? And that’s a bit of a head-scratcher. Writer-director Baz Luhrmann has enjoyed a Midas touch up to now, tapping popular acclaim with his so-called Read more

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    Top of the Pops: the Movie Playlist

    • 09 Jul 2008

    If Mamma Mia! is a smash hit no one in Europe will be surprised. But in the US it’s far from a foregone conclusion. Yes, the musical was a Broadway sensation, just as it was everywhere else in the world (they say more than 30 million theatergoers have seen the show), and yes, Meryl Streep could conceivably notch up another Oscar nomination for her performance as Donna, mother of the bride… but – and it’s a big but – ABBA never conquered North America. “Dancin Read more

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Average rating: 3.82   76.4% from 61 members

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