| Take the Lead | 
 enlarge | Director: Liz Friedlander
Actors: Antonio Banderas, Rob Brown, Yaya Dacosta, Alfre Woodard, John Ortiz
Studio: New Line Home Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  95 reviews
Sales Rank: 1750
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Full Screen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 108
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: TRNDN10363D
UPC: 794043103636
EAN: 0794043103636
ASIN: B000FUTVLY
Theatrical Release Date: April 7, 2006
Release Date: August 29, 2006
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Product Description
A ballroom dance teacher takes his classical training to an inner-city school & gives the students something to believe in - themselves. Studio: New Line Home Video Release Date: 11/11/2008 Starring: Antonio Banderas Rating: Pg13
Amazon.com
The sensuous thrill of ballroom dancing collides with the hip-hop world of self-expression in Take the Lead. Antonio Banderas (Desperado, The Mask of Zorro) stars as Pierre Dulaine, a dance teacher who--perhaps to fill a void in his own life--decides to teach the foxtrot and the tango to a group of inner-city high school students who've been put in detention. The kids sullenly resist this intruder with his silly box-steps, but gradually succumb to the allure of passion channeled into physical grace. It's a lot of hooey, of course--the stories about the individual kids are shallow melodrama--but a movie like this isn't so much about plot as about dancing, and the dancing bewitches. The main problem of Take the Lead is that there isn't enough dancing; at least half of the personal struggle of the students could be jettisoned and happily be replaced by fifteen minutes of a sleek and sexy rhumba. Still, Banderas has a warm, ingratiating presence and can spout platitudes about dance with conviction; Alfre Woodard (Crooklyn, Desperate Housewives) has her usual charismatic authority as the school's hard-nosed principal; and the dance competition at the movie's end gives the movie the lift it's wanted for the previous hour and a half. --Bret Fetzer
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Take the Lead November 18, 2008
product delivered in very short time
beautifull movie
1 regret : in Europe only playable on your laptop, not on tv, something about restricted areas, it's a pity
 Time to take out your dancing shoes October 31, 2008
This was a great movie. I had never seen it before and everyone has been trying to get me to watch it. I finally sat down and watched it. And I couldn't get enough of it. I would have to say out of the entire movie, the ending was the best part. From when they entered the competition to the last tango. I had a blast and it kept me on my toes. Literally I am now back in dance class. I showed my class this movie and almost all of them went to buy it. I adore this movie. Thank you Amazon for being so convenient. : )
Take The Lead video October 24, 2008
I love shopping at Amazon. com. I have always had excellent service from all of the sellers. My items have always arrived in a timely manner and as described in the purchase.
"Look at Mr. Dulane, gettin his flirt on" July 23, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This movie will want to make everyone go, and learn ballroom dancing. I love this movie, it great!!!!
I love Antonio Banderas!:) July 19, 2008
I love dance films but Banderas does a great job as a charming dance teacher who helps iner city kids to show what they got. I reccomend this film it has a beat that will make you wanna move.:)
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