Dance Academy: The Movie
Former ballet student, Tara Webster, was destined to become one of the top dancers of her generation before a devastating injury crippled her career. Over the last eighteen months she has tried to embrace life as a university student but cannot get over her dream of dancing professionally. In her quest to defy the odds in a near impossible comeback, Tara leaves her life and love behind in Sydney and travels to New York. But as the rejections pile up, and Tara tears herself apart trying to fit the unrelenting ballet mould, she must learn to find, and trust, her own voice before she loses everything that truly matters in the pursuit of a dream.
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7 December 1960, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
5 September 1990
7 February 1994
1936, London, England, UK
9 November 1992, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
20 July 1992, Sydney, Australia
16 December 1967, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
20 January 1989, Johannesburg, South Africa
23 June 1964, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
15 November 1958, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
April 05, 2017
The old-fashion story path navigated here (much of which takes place in the US) is a lot more downbeat and realistic about the plight of young performers than many viewers will expect. The movie as a whole is all the better for it.
April 14, 2017
I liked the Emma Stone-Ryan Gosling song and dance romance-drama, but for me Dance Academy feels more real. It has something about it that is more dramatic, more emotional, more complex.
April 07, 2017
Fans of the show will feel dutifully well-served. Those coming to the film cold might feel a little iced out.
April 05, 2017
Walker exhibits admirable restraint in the face of such potentially overwrought romantic tropes, refusing to milk the emotional moments, encouraging his actors to underplay the key scenes. The characters' self-deprecating humour also serves the film well.
April 06, 2017
While maintaining the heart that helped make it a small-screen hit, Dance Academy looks every bit the sumptuous big-screen drama.
May 31, 2017
There's a realness to these characters and their journey that makes this worth a look.
April 12, 2017
Strauss is a writer of real flair. A former teen dancer, she knows the milieu like the back of her hand and is not ashamed to take delight in an all-Aussie phrase like "pity pash".
April 06, 2017
If you want to be a snob about dance-based drama for teens, that's your choice, but you're about to miss out on something pretty great.
March 27, 2017
In the final stanza of "Dance Academy" it finally becomes the movie that you're hoping it will be; it's a crowd pleaser that has surprises up its sleeve.
April 10, 2017
What it lacks in surprises, it makes up for in poise, a standard coat of glossy-imaged polish, and an affable teen melodrama air.
April 05, 2017
Subversive entertainment it ain't. But nor is this well-paced yarn - with pleasing albeit narrowly scoped performances from a perky cast - bereft of pleasantries and surprises.
April 12, 2017
The dialogue isn't exactly sparkling. It's matter-of-fact at best, cliched at worst, but Tara and friends are easy to like. The ballet movie tradition is well served.
